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Detail of front cover NO SORT OF IRON
Duff, Roger. NO SORT OF IRON. Culture of Cook's Polynesians. A Cook Bicentenary Exhibition - Art Galleries and Museums's Association of New Zealand. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1969 (pb). Pp: 92; 265mm x 215mm; 0.40kg. 3 col, 173 b/w, 14 fig. Foreword, acknowledgments, tribute, essay, bibliography. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor discolouration). Art Galleries and Museums Association, Auckland, 1969. (Exhibition October 1969 to June 1970. The 173 Cook Polynesian artefacts displayed in this exhibit came from the New Zealand museums, the Oldman Collection, the National Ethnographic Museum Sweden and others) (Keywords: Ethnology, Society-Australs, Maori, New Zealand, Tonga, Easter Island, Cook Islands, Hawaii).
Book Code: M775 AU$150
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Firth, Raymond. WE, THE TIKOPIA. Kinship in Primitive Polynesia (Abridged by the Author). BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1963 (pb). Pp: xxii, 494; 200mm x 135mm; 0.53kg. 10 b/w, 15 tab, 6 pln, 2 maps. Preface, introduction, introduction to this edition, appendix, index. A good paperback copy. Wrp: g. (minor wear on wrap). Beacon Press, Boston, 1963. (This comprehensive treatment of a tribal society was written by Professor Firth after a year of field work on the small Pacific Island of Tikopia in the 1920s, at a time when these Polynesian people were almost untouched by Western civilisation. The religious, familial, political, economic and cultural features of Tikopian tribal organisation are covered in fascinating detail) (Keywords: Anthropology, sociology, relationship, Pacific, Polynesia, Tikopia).
Book Code: D147 AU$25
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Poignant, Roslyn. OCEANIC MYTHOLOGY. The Myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia. BNo. n/a. First Edition, 1967. Pp: 5-141; 275mm x 205mm; 0.75kg. 29 col, 100 b/w, 1 map. Author's note, introduction, further reading list, acknowledgments, index. A very good copy in dust wrapper. Cvr: vg; dw: vg. Paul Hamlyn, London, 1967. (The author has recorded versions of myths which have been recounted by storytellers. These stories have been collected by explorers, travellers, missionaries, government officials and scholars who have recorded and commented on the oral literature and traditions of the peoples of the Pacific) (Keywords: Mythology, ethnology, Pacific, Solomon Islands, Djanggawul, Arnhem Land, Walbiri, Yuendumu, Hawaii, Tawhaki, Maori, Ambrim, Vanuatu).
Book Code: C480 AU$25
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