Carved and painted designs from New Guinea

A$80 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

/ by Albert Buell Lewis, Assistant Curator of Melanesian Ethnology Berthold Laufer, Curator, Department of Anthropology, Editor. Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 1931. Series: Anthropology Design series, no. 5. Quarto (305 x 230 mm), original printed wrappers, pp. 3, followed by 52 b/w photographic plates, focusing on the art styles and material culture of societies in the Papuan Gulf region; a superb copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper.

• Binding: Hardcover

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