Melanesian Art in the Australian Museum
Sydney: Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1968. Paperback. 61p., brief running texts coupled with captions of exhibits shown and unshown, softbound in 11x8 inch photographic wraps, b&w exhibit photos (a few in full color) plus numerous line-drawn maps. Item bears cover-crimps from much handling, slight abrasion to edges and faint fuzzy foxing to title page (along with a neat ownership in ballpoint. Sound copy which is otherwise unmarked and clean.
"Many of these specimens were collected during the 1870s and 1880s.." which indicates authentic stuff, not export art.
Cat.No: 313060
Price: $18.00
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Melanesia,
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pottery, ceramics,
Sculpture
See all items by David R. Moore, photographic dept, text. Charles V. Turner, curator of anthropology