Korwars and Korwar Style. Art and Ancestor Worship in North-West New Guinea
Paris, Mouton & Co., Publishers, 1968.
Quarto, 104 pages plus 40 pages of plates (containing 69 plates from photographs).
Cloth stamped in white; covers very slightly marked; small patch of residue from an old label on the front pastedown; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper a little worn and slightly torn and creased.
'Art in its Context. Studies in Ethno-Aesthetics edited by Adrian A. Gerbrands. Museum Series: Volume 2.' This study 'is concerned with the area of the Geelvinkbay in the Western part of New Guinea [Indonesian West Irian], and mainly with one kind of object, the ancestor figures for which the name "korwar" has become the usual term' (dustwrapper blurb).
Item #143175
Price (AUD):
$450.00