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Detail of front of wrap''Primitive Art of New Guinea
Newton, Douglas. PRIMITIVE ART OF NEW GUINEA - July 13th-30th, 1963. The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, Long Island. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1963 (pb). Pp: 12; 225mm x 150mm; 0.04kg 6 b/w, 1 map. Introduction, catalogue. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: g. The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, 1963. (Of the 105 Melanesian artefacts listed in the catalogue, six of them are illustrated) (Keywords: Ethnology, Melanesia, New Guinea, Iatmul, Tshuosh, Papuan Gulf, Kerewa, Imumu).
Book Code: J416 AU$12
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O'Hanlon, Michael. READING THE SKIN. Adornment, Display and Society among the Wahgi. BNo. 1-86333-003-8. First Edition (AU), 1989. Pp: 164; 245mm x 190mm; 0.85kg. 16 col(pl), 10 b/w, 16 fig, 1 tab, 2 maps. Preface, afterword, orthography and kinship terms, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Crawford House Press Pty Ltd, Bathurst, NSW 2795, 1989. (In this book the author answers the questions that anthropologists ask about the elaborate traditions of one Highland people, the Wahgi. These traditions involve self adornment with plumes, furs, paint and shells and dancing before critical spectators, rivals and enemies) (Keywords: Anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea).

Book Code: Z012 AU$29
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Detail of wrapper - An Ethnology of the Admiralty Islanders
Ohnemus, Sylvia. AN ETHNOLOGY OF THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDERS. The Alfred Buhler Collection, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Basel. BNo. 1-86333-132-8. First Edition, 1998 Pp: xi, 430; 245mm x 210mm; 1.35kg. 53 col, 392 b/w, 82 fig, 4 maps. Preface, foreword, introduction, list, bibliography, index of place names. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Crawford House Publishing, Bathurst, NSW 2795, 1998. (The book presents Alfred Buhler's collection of artefacts from the Admiralty Islands along with an interpretation of the use and function of the objects) (Keywords: Ethnology, Pacific, Melanesia, Drauo, Bogai, kapui, tapa, crafts).
Book Code: Z006 AU$54
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Read, Charles H. (British Museum). HANDBOOK TO THE ETHNOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS. Tribal specimens from worldwide sources. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1910. Pp: xvi, 304; 220mm x 135mm; 0.70kg. 1 col, 14 b/w(pl), 273 b/w & fig, 2 maps. Preface, introduction, general index, geographical and tribal index. A good hardback copy in green-cloth boards. Cvr: g. (slight wear at corners). British Museum, Oxford University Press, London, 1910. (After a general introduction to ethnography on a worldwide basis the book has major sections on objects, manners and customs from Oceania, Africa and Asia and lesser sections on America and Australia) (Keywords: Ethnology, East Asia, Indo-China, Indonesia, Papua, Melanesia, Polynesia, Americas).

Book Code: J130 AU$250

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Schneebaum, Tobias. WHERE THE SPIRIT DWELLS. An Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle. BNo. 0-8021-3166-2. First Edition, 1989 (pb) (1988). Pp: xi, 212; 205mm x 140mm; 0.32kg. 25 b/w(pl), 1 map(dp). Acknowledgments, glossary of words, bibliography. A very good paperback copy. Wrp: vg. Grove Press, New York, 1988. (The author tells the story of his four years among the Asmat of New Guinea. This book is the final volume of his autobiographical trilogy) (Keywords: Cultural sociology, anthropology, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Asmat).

Book Code: J009 AU$18
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Detail of dust wrapper of AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN PAPUA
Young, Michael W. & Julia Clark. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN PAPUA. The Photography of F.E. Williams, 1922-1939. BNo. 1-86333-200-6. First Edition, 2001. Pp: x, 307; 260mm x 210mm; 1.45kg. 235 b/w, 9 maps. Foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, endnotes, photo sources, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Crawford House Publishing, Hindmarsh, South Australia, 2001. (This book is a pictorial celebration of the work of a brilliant ethnographer. F.E. Williams was one of the most talented and productive anthropologists of his generation. He spent twenty years as Government Anthropologist in the Australian Territory of Papua. A substantial introductory essay provides the biographical, historical and anthropological contexts of William's ethnographic and photographic achievements) (Keywords: Anthropology, cultural history, Pacific, Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua).
Book Code: P025 AU$70
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