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Detail of front cover - THE ART OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS (gathercole1p 165/215 GATH01)
Gathercole, Peter; Adrienne L. Kaeppler & Douglas Newton. THE ART OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. Exhibition catalogue of National Gallery of Art, Washington. BNo. 79-16114. First Edition, 1979 (pb). Pp: 366; 280mm x 215mm; 1.42kg. 13 col, num b/w, 1 tab, 3 maps. Foreword, list, acknowledgments, references. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (worn on lower back corners). National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979. (Artefacts for the exhbition were selected from a world-wide source. The aim had been to choose those objects which were made before or collected at the earliest contact by Westerners to reflect the most pristine state of the cultures) (Keywords: Ethnology, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Maori, Fiji, Marquesas, Austral, Hawaii).
Book Code: N040 AU$175
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Haddon, A.C. & James Hornell. CANOES OF OCEANIA. A survey and description. BNo. 0-910240-19-1. Third Reprint Edition, 1997 (pb). Pp: xxv, 884; 270mm x 185mm; 1.79kg. 262 b/w & fig, 6 maps. Introduction, bibliography, general survey, conclusions. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1997. (This book is the combination of three publications; canoes of Polynesia, Fiji and Micronesia, and Melanesia, Queensland and New Guinea; and definitions and survey) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, Polynesia, Australia, Austral, Society, Mangareva, Taumoto, canoes, vessels, sea-going).
Book Code: L401 AU$80
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Detail of wrapper - JAMES COOK - Gifts and Treasures from the South Seas
Hauser-Schaublin, Brigitta & G. Kruger (editors). JAMES COOK. Gifts and Treasures of the South Seas, The Cook/Forster Collection, Gottingen. BNo. 3-7913-1868-3. First Edition, 1998. Pp: 351; 330mm x 240mm; 2.08kg. 50 col, 420 b/w & fig, 1 map(ep). Foreword, bibliography. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Prestel-Verlag, Munchen, 1998. (The objects are divided into three main regional groups. It provides an essential reference for anthropologists, collectors and historians of the Southern Hemisphere) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Polynesia, Melanesia, Americas, Marquesas, Tonga, Hawaii, Society Islands).
Book Code: K566 AU$130
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Kaeppler, Adrienne. ELEVEN GODS ASSEMBLED. An Exhibition of Hawaiian Wooden Images. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1979 (pb). Pp: 20; 250mm x 180mm; 0.04kg. 15 b/w. Literature cited. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1979. (An exhibition of eleven wooden figures in human form which are important remnants of the Hawaiian religious system) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Hawaii, ki'I akua, ki'I aumakua, traditional sculpture, Kihawahine).
Book Code: R639 AU$10
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Kaeppler, Adrienne. FEATHER CLOAKS, CLOAKS, SHIP CAPTAINS, AND LORDS. Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum Vol.XXIV, No.6, July 8, 1970. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1970 (pb). Pp: 92-113; 225mm x 150mm; 0.04kg. 3 col, 2 b/w. Literature cited, notes. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1970. (Feather cloaks, ahu'ula, are the most spectacular of all objects of native Hawaiian manufacture and were the visula symbols of prestige and power in pre-European Hawaii. This paper recounts the stories of the travels of two of these cloaks which found their separate paths from Hawaiian royalty to two lords of northern Scotland, and eventually back again to Hawaii) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Hawaii, ahu'ula, makahiki, Kamehameha).
Book Code: J425 AU$15
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Metraux, Alfred. EASTER ISLAND - A Stone-Age Civilization of the Pacific. (Translated from the French by Michael Bullock). BNo. n/a. First Edition (UK), 1957. Pp: (iv), 250; 195mm x 135mm; 0.46kg. 27 b/w, 6 fig. Foreword, introduction, bibliography, index. A good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: g; dw: g. (minor chipping on dw). Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1957. (Utilising all the available evidence as well as his own observations during a scientific expedition to the island, Dr Metraux attempts to reconstruct its former civilization and to shed light on the problematic elements of its past and present. He considers the mythology of the island and discusses the creation of the gigantic statues found on the slopes of the volcano) (Keywords: Cultural history, Pacific, Polynesia, Easter Island, civilisation).
Book Code: D568 AU$32
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Detail of front cover - TE TOI WHAKAIRO - The Art of Maori Carving (hirini1p 150/199 MEAD02)
Mead, Hirini Moko. TE TOI WHAKAIRO. The Art of Maori Carving. BNo. 0-7900-0366-X. Reprinted Edition, 1999 (1986) (pb). Pp: (viii), 268; 240mm x 185mm; 0.76kg. 277 b/w & fig. Introduction, selected bibliography, index. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd, Auckland, 1999. (The author, himself an accomplished carver, has written this book for those who want to understand more about New Zealand's most original and most representative art form) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, New Zealand, Maori, Tangaroa, Hauraki, Tainui, Taranaki, Arawa, Mataatua).
Book Code: N005 SOLD - now out of stock AU$33
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