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Front Cover - Luk Luk Gen! Look Again (cochrane1p 150/231 COCH01)
Cochrane, Susan Simons & Hugh Stevenson. LUK LUK GEN - LOOK AGAIN ! Contemporary Art from Papua New Guinea. BNo. 0-949461-07-5. First Edition, 1990 (pb). Pp: 80; 290mm x 210mm; 0.42kg. 30 col, 65 b/w, 13 fig, 1 map. Acknowledgments, foreword, preface, introduction, biographies, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Pere Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Queensland, 1990. (This book was prepared as a catalogue for a travelling exhibition of contemporary works of Melanesian art of a group of Papua New Guinea artists) (Keywords: Contemporary art, Pacific, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Kauage Mathias, Taba Silau, Aiion Aiako, Ruki Fame, Cecil King Wungi, Watu Lopo, John Mann, Timothy Akis).
Book Code: R616 AU$50
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Dust Wrapper - Art and Performance in Oceania
Craig, B., B. Kernot & C. Anderson (ed). ART AND PERFORMANCE IN OCEANIA. The Fifth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association. BNo. 1-86333-185-9. First Edition, 1999. Pp: viii, 318; 230mm x 200mm; 1.15kg. 8 col, num b/w, fig & maps. Preface, introduction, contributors, references. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Crawford House Publishing Pty Ltd, Bathurst, 1999. (The symposium titled 'Art, Performance and Society', called for papers in sessions dealing with 'Production and Performance', 'Social and Cultural Context', 'The Record and the Remainder', and 'The Mission of Museums'. In all, some sixty papers were presented over a five-day period, twenty-four of which have been included in this book) (Keywords: Ethnology, Micronesia, Yap, Tahiti, Maori, Aboriginal art, Gamei, Papua New Guinea, Malagan, Tabar, Massim, Melanesia).
Book Code: Z005 AU$46
Note: Contributors and papers are:
(1) Konishi, Junko - The relationship between the evaluations of dance performance and the social system in Yap, Micronesia. (2) Hereniko, Vilsoni - Clowning as political commentary: Polynesia - then and now. (3 ) Stevensen, Karen - Festivals, identity and performance: Tahiti and the 6th Pacific Arts. (4 ) Kernot, Bernie - Imaging the nation: The New Zealand International Exhibition 1906-07 and the Model Maori Pa. (5) Meredith, Regina - Art education in Samoa: Acculturated identity. (6) Pollock, Nancy J. - Fat is beautiful: The body as art form in the Pacific. (7) Megaw, J.V.S. & M. Ruth Megaw - Artists as performers: The Flinders University Aboriginal Artists-in-Residence program re-reviewed. (8) Croft, Brenda L. - Speaking as the 'Other'. (9) Gemes, Juno - Committed photography: Recording history. (10) Fergie, Deane - Racism and the state: Critical reflections on the organisation of heritage institutions in South Australia. (11) Stanton, John E. - Ethnographic museums and indigenous peoples: A perspective from Western Australia. (12) Anderson, Christopher - Old galleries, new people. (13) Smidt, Dirk & Soroi Marepo Eoe - A festival to honour the dead and revitalise society: Masks and prestige in a Gamei community (Lower Ramu, Papua New Guinea). (14) Issac, Chris & Barry Craig - Sulka masked ceremonies and exchange. (15) Lurang, Noah J. - The significance of the tantanua dance within the Verem malagan. (16) Gunn, Michael - Taxonomic structure and typology in malagan ritual art tradition of Tabar, New Ireland. (17) Ewins, Rod - The acoustic properties of the Fijian 'slit-gongs'. (18) Beran, Harry - The Woodcarvings of Mutuaga, a 19th-century artist of the Massim district of Papua New Guinea. (19) Choulai, Wendi & Jacquelyn Lewis-Harris - Women and the fibre arts of Papua New Guinea. (20) Quanchi, Max - Tree-houses, representation and photography on the Papuan coast. (21) Regius, Helena - 'Our ethnological troops in the field': Swedes and museum collecting in Melanesia circa 1900. (22) Vargyas, Gabor - Art of Astrolabe Bay: History of research, results and future research tasks. (23) Cochrane, Susan - Out of the doldrums: Museums and cultural centres in Pacific Islands countries in the 1990s. (24) Dark, Philip J.C. - Of old models and new in Pacific art: Real or spurious?
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Deacon, A. Bernard. MALEKULA - A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides. Edited by Camilla H. Wedgwood. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1934. Pp: xliv, 789; 235mm x 150mm; 1.24kg. 24 b/w(pl), 40 fig, 7 tab, 3 maps. Preface by Dr A.C. Haddon, introduction, appendices A to C, bibliography, index. A good hardback copy in original navy-blue boards. Cvr: g. (lacks dw; minor wear on cvr; signature on fep). George Routledge & Sons Ltd, London, 1934. (The book is full of information which has proved invaluable to ethnologists. Chapters deal with the land and its people, village and village life, kinship organisation, marriage and sexual relations, economic life, warefare, rites of birth and initiation, ritual life of women, and the gongs) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, Vanuatu, New Hebrides, Malekula).
Book Code: D656 AU$400
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Detail of wrap - MAK BILONG SEPIK (dennett02ap 165/216 DENN02)
Dennett, Helen (editor) & Paul Dennett (text). MAK BILONG SEPIK. A Selection of Designs and Paintings from the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. BNo.0-86935-015-3. Reprint Edition, 1987 (1975) (pb). Pp: 120; 270mm x 200mm; 0.30kg. 8 fig(col), 130 fig, 2 maps. Introduction. A very good stiff-cover copy. Wrp: vg. Wirui Press, Wewak, PNG, 1987. (This book deals with two-dimensional art of the Sepik River of Papua New Guinea. Most of the designs and paintings are the work of artists who were still living at the time of printing) (Keywords: Traditional art, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Sepik).
Book Code: B049 AU$25
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Detail of dust wrapper - ADORNED -Traditional Jewellery and Body Decoration (edmund1p 150/212 EDMU1)
Edmundson, Anna & Chris Boylan. ADORNED -Traditional Jewellery and Body Decoration. From Australia and the Pacific. BNo. 0-909635-36-6 First Edition, 1999 (pb) 112p; 295mm x 205mm; 0.65kg. 34 col, 65 b/w, 1 map. Preface, ethnographic info, Bibliography, acknowledgments. A very good paperback copy in dust wrapper. Wrp: vg; dw: vg. Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1999. (The book looks at some of the many ways of adorning the human body, bringing together a wide range of nineteenth and twentieth century artefacts from the indigenous art traditions of Australia and the Pacific) (Ethnology, Australia, Aboriginal, Melanesia, Kimberley, Bathurst Island, Torres Strait, Simbu, Morobe, Irian Jaya).
Book Code: P331 SOLD - now out of stock AU$49
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Dust Wrapper - KARAVAR - Masks and Power in a Melanesian Ritual
Errington, Frederick Karl. KARAVAR. Masks and Power in a Melanesian Ritual. BNo. 0-8014-0836-9. First Edition, 1974. Pp: 260; 210mm x 140mm; 0.50kg. 12 b/w, 7 fig. Foreword, preface, introduction, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Cornell University Press, London, 1974. (This book is an interpretation of the cultural and social life of the inhabitants of a small island in the Duke of York Group in the territory of Papua New Guinea) (Keywords: Cultural anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, Tubuan, dukduk).
Book Code: G104 AU$56
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Freeman, J.D. & W.R. Geddes (ed). ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE SOUTH SEAS. Essays presented to H.D. Skinner. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1959. Pp: 268; 250mm x 180mm; 1.04kg. 30 b/w, 80 fig, 10 tab, 5 maps. Preface, references, bibliography of H.D. Skinner. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (wear on cvr & dw; minor foxing on dw). Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd, New Plymouth New Zealand, 1959. (The essays presented in the book cover studies in Polynesian pre-history and ethnology to a demographic survey of New Zealand's Maori population in the late 1950s) (Keywords: Ethnology, Moa-hunter, adzes, Maori, Tikopia, New Guinea, Samoa, Fiji).
Book Code: D083 AU$70
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Detail of front cover of TAMBARAN
Gardi, Rene. (translated by Eric Northcott). TAMBARAN. An Encounter with Cultures in Decline in New Guinea. BNo. n/a. First Edition (UK), 1960. Pp: 204; 230mm x 150mm; 0.65kg. 55 b/w, num fig, 2 maps. Translator's note. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Constable and Company Ltd, London, 1960. (The author accompanied Professor Alfrad Buhler on an expedition to the remote parts of the Sepik region to collect artefacts. The text is illustrated with his photographs and drawings) (Keywords: Anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Abelam, Sepik).
Book Code: M129 AU$45
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Gardner, Robert & Karl G. Heider. GARDENS OF WAR. Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age. BNo. 68-28536. First Edition, 1968 (USA). Pp: xx, 186; 275mm x 210mm; 1.32kg. 36 col, 301 b/w, 1 map. Introduction, foreword, acknowledgments, credits, index, note. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (patch scuff on fep). Random House Inc, New York, 1968. (This book provides a full photographic record of the culture of the Dugum Dani who live in the Grand Valley of Baliem in Irian Jaya) (Keywords: Social anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Western Highlands).
Book Code: D130 AU$46
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Detail of front cover of HUNSTEIN KOROWORI
Goldman, Philip. HUNSTEIN KOROWORI. Sculpture from the Sepik Hills, New Guinea. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1971 (pb). Pp: (30); 200mm x 210mm; 0.10kg. 2 col, 22 b/w, 1 map. Foreword, explanation of terms used, bibliographical notes. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. (wear on wrp). Graphis Press Ltd, London, 1971. (The book presents a selection of sculpture from an exhibition held at a gallery in London in 1971) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Hunstein Mountains, Bahinemo, Korowori, Bogonemari Rivers).
Book Code: S129 SOLD - now out of stock AU$100
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Detail of wrapper - THE ARTS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC - The Arts of Mankind Series edited by Andre Malraux and Georges Salles (guiart2ap 170/220 GUIA2)
Guiart, Jean. THE ARTS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC. The Arts of Mankind Series edited by Andre Malraux and Georges Salles. BNo. n/a. First English Edition, 1963. Pp: 456; 280mm x 220mm; 2.32kg. 107 col, 317 b/w, 5 maps. Introduction, glossarial index, bibliography. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (minor wear on edges of wrapper; slight foxing to top of page block). Thames and Hudson, London, 1963. (The first part of the book describes the social, religious and cultural milieus of Oceania and the second part is a "Gazetteer of Styles" in detail and region by region basis) (Keywords: Ethnology, Australia, Torres Strait, Papua, Sentani, Sepik, New Caledonia, Huon, Korovar, Massim, Admiralty, Solomon Islands, Maori, Marquesas, Hawaii).
Book Code: Q339 AU$220
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Detail of wrap - MELANESIAN ART AND RITUAL - Exhibition - Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, 1963 (harner20p 140/216 HARN20)
Harner, Michael J. & William R. Bascom. MELANESIAN ART AND RITUAL. Exhibition - Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California, 1963. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1963 (pb). Pp: (18); 215mm x 140mm; 0.05kg. 6 b/w, 2 maps. Introduction, preface, selected readings. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. University of California, Los Angeles, 1963. (This booklet was published for the exhibition at the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology between April and November 1963. The Melanesian artefacts for the exhibition were lent by a number of institutions and private collectors but the majority came from the United World Arts Foundation of New York. Fourteen of them are illustrated with black and white photographs) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, Maprik, Sulka, Malanggan, Sepik, Woodlark Island).
Book Code: D596 SOLD - now out of stock AU$18
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Detail of front wrapper of PACIFIC ART - Persistence, Change and Meaning
Herle, Anita; Nick Stanley, Karen Stevenson & Robert L. Welsch (editors). PACIFIC ART. Persistence, Change and Meaning. BNo. 1-86333-214-6. First Edition, 2002. Pp: x, 455; 230mm x 195mm; 1.57kg. 45 col, 265 b/w, 30 fig, 4 maps. Preface, testimonial, contributors, references. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Crawford House Publishing, Hindmarsh, 2002. (This collection of twenty-nine essays documents the state of research about Pacific art at the start of the 21st century. The essays are presented in five parts entitled: Interrogating the past through the photographic image; Defining and contesting identities through art; Exploring museums, collectors and meanings; Studying agency and objects; and Negotiating change in contemporary Pacific art) (Keywords: Ethnology, anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, Polynesia, Australia, Maori, Aboriginal).
Book Code: Z007 AU$49
Note: Contributors and papers are:
(1) Dark, Philip J.C. - Persistence, Change and Meaning in Pacific Art: A Retrospective View with an Eye towards the Future. (2) Dark, Philip J.C. - Using Photographs to Visualise the Art of the Kilenge. (3) Corbin, George A. - E.T. Gilliard's Ethnographic Photographs on the Middle Sepik River: Kanganaman Village, 1953-54. (4) Webb, Virginia-Lee - Authorship and Image: Hand-Coloured Glass Lantern-Slides from the Crane Pacific Expedition. (5) Davenport, William H. - The Persistence of Facial Scarification as Body Art in the Eastern Solomon Islands. (6) Flores, Judy - Art and Identity in the Mariana Islands: The Reconstruction of 'Ancient' Chamorro Dance. (7) Bell, Joshua A. - A New Hale for the Nation: The Center for Hawaiian Studies, Manoa Campus, University of Hawai'i. (8) Neller, Angela J. - From Utilitarian to Sacred: The Transformation of a Traditional Hawaiian Object. (9) Herda, Phyllis S. - Cook Islands Tivaevae: Migration and the Display of Culture in Aotearoa/New Zealand. (10) Stanley, Nick - Museums and Indigenous Identity: Asmat Carving in a Global Context. (11) Campbell, Shirley - What's in a Name? The Search of Meaning. (12) Waite, Deborah - Exploring Solomon Islands Shields: Vehicles of Power in Changing Museum Contexts. (13) Craig, Barry - 'A Stranger in a Strange Land': Kenneth Thomas in the North Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea. (14) Bonshek, Liz - Objects Mediating Relationships. (15) Mayer, Carol E. - In the Spirit of a Difference Time: The Legacy of Early Collecting Practices in the Pacific. (16) Herle, Anita - Objects, agency and museums: Continuing Dialogues between the Torres Strait and Cambridge. (17) Neich, Roger - The Gateways of Maketu: Ngati Pikiao Carving Style and the Persistence of Form. (18) Gathercole, Peter - 'Te Maori' in the Longer View. (19) Tilberg, Jo Anne Van & Cristian Arevalo - Reconstructing the Rapa Nui Carver's Perspective: Observations on the Experimental Replication of Moai on Easter Island. (20) Kaeppler, Adrienne L. - The Structure of Tongan Barkcloth Design: Imagery, Metaphor and Allusion. (21) Hooper, Steven - Memorial Images of Eastern Fiji: Materials, metaphors and Meanings. (22) Venbrux, Eric - The Craft of Spider Woman: A History of Bark Baskets in the Tiwi Islands. (23) Totu, Victor - The Impact of the Commercial Development of Art on Traditional Culture in the Solomon Islands. (24) Schindlbeck, Marcus - Contemporary Maori Art and Berlin's Ethnographical Museum. (25) Kjellgren, Eric - Painting for Corroboree, Painting for Kartiya: Contemporary Aboriginal Art in the East Kimberley, Western Australia. (26) Megaw, J.V.S. - Transformations: Appreciation, Appropriation and Imagery in Indigenous Australian Art. (27) Peltier, Philippe - Beyond All Limits. (28) Ivory, Carol S. - Marquesan Art at the Millennium. (29) Stevenson, Karen - The Island in the Urban: Contemporary Pacific Art in New Zealand.
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Hides, Jack. THROUGH WILDEST PAPUA. Blackie's Travel Library. BNo. n/a. Reprint Edition 1937 (1935). Pp: x, 165; 195mm x 135mm; 0.52kg. 24 b/w(pl), 1 map(ep). Introduction, epilogue, notes. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (minor wear on dw). Blackie & Son Limited, London, 1937. (This book is an account of two expeditions into the unknown interior of New Guinea, the Lolopia Patrol to the Papuan Mountains and the patrol to a miners' camp at Lakekamu River) (Keywords: Exploration, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea).
Book Code: C147 AU$58
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Detail of wrapper - THE LEADERS AND THE LED - Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea (hogbin11ap 145/225 HOGB11)
Hogbin, Ian H. THE LEADERS AND THE LED. Social Control in Wogeo, New Guinea. BNo.0-522-84138-4. First Edition, 1978. Pp: xi, 195; 210mm x 135mm; 0.42kg. 25 b/w(pl), 3 fig, 2 maps. Introduction, reference notes, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: g. (wear & minor tear on dw; penned name & date on fep). Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 1978. (This book deals with practices, attitudes, and structures of the people of Wogeo. The island of Wogeo lies off the north coast of Papua New Guinea) (Keywords: Anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Wogeo).
Book Code: N735 AU$28
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Detail of wrapper - THE HUMAN AVIARY - A Pictorial Discovery of New Guinea (holton05p 155/216 HOLT05)
Holton, George & Kenneth E. Read. THE HUMAN AVIARY. A Pictorial Discovery of New Guinea. BNo. 684-12385-1. First Edition, 1971. Pp: 64; 260mm x 180mm; 0.50kg. num col, 1 map. Suggestions for further reading, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: g. (dw frayed at head of sto). Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1971. (The book is a profile of Papua New Guinea, presenting in prose and in pictures a feeling for and appreciation of life on that island in the 1960s) (Keywords: Social anthropology, photography, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea).
Book Code: R105 AU$20
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Dust Wrapper - Long Ago is Far Away (hope2p 150/236 HOPE02)
Hope, Penelope. LONG AGO IS FAR AWAY. Accounts of the early exploration and settlement of the Papuan Gulf area. BNo. 0-7081-1346-X. First Edition, 1979. Pp: xiv, 264; 245mm x 155mm; 0.68kg. 16 b/w, 3 maps. Author's note, postscript, notes, reading list, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. (minor wear on wrp). Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1979. (The author presents the activities and motivations of a generation of people who happen to come to the rivers which flow into the Papuan Gulf from 1845 to 1929) (Keywords: Exploration, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea).
Book Code: H418 AU$25
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