Decorative Art Of New Guinea

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1925. First edition. Softcover. g. Small folio. 2pp (text), [52]pp (plates). Original illustrated wrappers. Frontispiece. Illustrated title page. This work features outstanding examples of New Guinea art held in the collections of Field Museum, Chicago. Closed tear along head of spine. Lower front corner bumped, thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Previous owner's… Read more about this item

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1925. First edition. Paperback. Very good. 52pp. tan wraps. 9" x 12". Anthropology Design Series #4. With 52 plates of decorative wood carving designs and patterns, primarily from the west coast of New Guinea. Wraps show some wear andchipping and are largely detached. Two pieces missing from the lower portion of the… Read more about this item

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1925. Hardcover. Good +. Sml. 4to, ii + 2pp + 52 plates. Orig. tan pp wrappers, one cover detached with slt. loss in blank area, o/w good+.

New York: Dover Publications Inc.. Qto., 118 pages, illustrated. A Very Good clean copy. . Very Good. Paperback. 1974.

New York: Dover, 1972. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. quarto. softback with stiff wrappers 113pp., b/w plates, Å

Dover, New York (unabridged republication of Decorative Art Of New Guinea: Incised Designs (1925) & Carved & Painted Designs From New Guyinea (1931). 30.0 x 22.5cms, 116pp, 104 b/w plates, very good paperback & cover This book reproduces photographs and rubbings of the representative geometric, abstact and realistic motifs on spears, shields, bracelets, masks, shell cups, spoons bowlspipes… Read more about this item