Oceania
-
Pacific Art in Detail [Hardback]
Jennifer Newell(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9780714125909
Published by : British Museum Press
This book focuses on objects from the domestic to the sacred, from the elegantly simple to the sumptuously ornate, and from the historic to the contemporary. The author draws on striking and colourful examples from the Pacific&rsq... .... Learn More -
Remote Possibilities: Hoa Hakananai'a and HMS Topaze on Rapa Nui [Paperback]
Jo Anne Van Tilburg(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9780861591589
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 158
This paper is a considerably revised version of the 1992 British Museum Occasional Paper No. 73 by the same author. The book describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. It also reconstructs the underlying Rapanui ... .... Learn More -
Hoa Hakananai'a [Paperback]
Jo Anne Van Tilburg(Author)
$12.95ISBN: 9780714150246
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: Objects in Focus
This concise book tells the story of Hoa Hakananai'a, a large stone statue from Easter Island, which became part of the collections of the British Museum in 1869. It examines Hoa Hakananai'a's significance within the ceremonial vi... .... Learn More -
Transforming Skins: Kwermin Sequences of Growth [Paperback]
Sveinn Eggertsson(Author)
Regular Price: $24.95
Special Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9789979545149
Published by : Iceland University Press
The Kwermin people occupy a series of valleys in the Western Provence of Papua New Guinea. This ethnographic study examines the Kwermin concept of the production of `knowledgeable skins' or `skin-like knowledge', meaning the acquisition of knowled... .... Learn More
