Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More
Glebe, Other Voices, 1970. With the ink ownership signature of University of Adelaide Professor of Architecture David Saunders (1928-1986) on the verso of the front cover of the first volume). A 'critical journal concerned with seeking an informed and discriminating assessment of contemporary Australian Art'. Not least, a contemporary interview..... More
Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2000. Exhibition catalogue. More
New York, Rizzoli, 1992. Not least, contributions by ethnologists Simon Kooijman, Jac. Hoogerbrugge and Theodoor van Baaren. More
New York, Hacker Art Books, 1969 (first thus). 'The extent of the land surface of the world referred to as Melanesia is relatively infinitesimal. Yet in an area comprising one comparatively large island, New Guinea, and innumerable small islands, there has developed an exuberance of decorative art which, taken as..... More
Budapest, Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1961. The author was Director of the Ethnographical Museum of Budapest; translated by Eva Racz. More
Köln, Stadt Köln, 1987. Text in German. Extensive catalogue of the Clausmeyer collection from the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne. More
Auckland, Auckland Institute and Museum, 1989. An illustrated catalogue of the sound-producing instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute Museum. More
Paris, Voyageurs et Curieux, 2002. Text in French. A catalogue of Solomon Islands artefacts. More
Belair, Crawford House Publishing Australia/ Oceania Art Society, 2005. Provenance: Professor Joost Daalder with his occasional pencilled annotations. Loosely inserted are several sheets of a printed draft review of the book by Daalder, with his annotations. 'This book ... illustrates twice as many types of Melanesian shields as ... previous..... More
London, Thames and Hudson, 1969. More
Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Number 65; an impressive catalogue prepared for the bicentennial of the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook (18 January 1778). More
Basel, Tribal Art Centre, 1985. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, from January 1985 to November 1988. More
London, Lund Humphries, 1971. 'Although the Fuller Collection is pan-Pacific ..., its three main segments are derived from Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia. The areas most amply represented - and, consequently, those treated most extensively in this volume - are New Zealand and the Solomon Islands' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Basel, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1989. Tribal art of the Abelam people of Papua New Guinea. Text in German. More
Shepparton, Shepparton Arts Centre, 1978. Catalogue for a touring exhibition (September 1978 to March 1979), by the author of the important 'Australian Studio Pottery and China Painting'. More
Bathurst, Crawford House Press, 1991 (first edition in English)/ 1923. Translated by D.Q. Stephenson, 'this rich documentation [is] the result of Swiss anthropologist Felix Speiser spending more than two years in the field [from] May 1910 to July 1912'. More
Honolulu, Hemmeter Publishing Corporation, 1990. Includes items from Hawaii, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Nuie, Society Islands, Austral Islands, Marquesas Islands, Nukuoro and Easter Islands. More
Firenze, Cantini, 1992. Text in Italian. Catalogue for the exhibition of the collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, Florence, held at Sala d'Arme di Palazzo Vecchio, 30 April to 9 August, 1992. More
Paris/ Milan, Musée du quai Branly/ 5 Continents Editions, 2006. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition at the St Louis Art Museum, (15 October, 2006 - 7 January, 2007). More
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, 2005. Catalogue of the exhibition of the same name at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from May 10, 2005 to January 15, 2006. More
Singapore, Editions Didier Millet, 2007. 'Collectors and scholars have admired the art of the Batak tribes in the mountains of northern Sumatra since the 19th century. Unfortunately, only a limited number of pieces, and often the same ones, have been published over the years. 'Batak Sculpture' brings together hundreds of..... More
New York, Museum of Primitive Art, 1967. This book includes 'a complete, annotated pictorial catalogue of the objects he collected, some of the finest works of Oceanic art known'. Michael Rockefeller (1938-1961) lost his life on the second expedition (in November 1961); the photographs to that expedition disappeared with him..... More
Munich, Prestel, 1999. 'Over five hundred objects - statues, jewelry, fabrics, weapons - represent the astonishing variety of art produced in the islands of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Indonesia. From Sumatra to Easter Island via Taiwan and Tonga, Austronesian art shares characteristics of bold, often geometric forms and rich detailed decoration..... More
Boston, MFA Publications/ Museum of Fine Arts, 2006. A catalogue depicting a collection of some 80 Oceanic objects. With essays by Michael Gunn and Christraud M. Geary. More