YENA. Art and Ceremony in a Sepik Society by BOWDEN, Ross

Oxford UK: Pitts River Mjuseum, 1983. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 179 pages, illustrated with 16 double sided black and white plates that contain 36 photographs, along with 10 black and white line drawn figures throughout the text, also with 7 tables and 1 map, with a foreword by Rodney Needham. Clean copy. Record # 378355

Univ.Oxf.,Pitt Rivers Museum. Very Good. 0907931634. 1983, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1983. Paperback.

Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Xofrod. octavo xii, 179 pages, plus 32 pages of plates. A clean, bright near Fine copy. . Near Fine. Paperback. 1983.

Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. 1983. Trade paperback. Very good.. 179 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography. . The Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea has long been recognised as one of the great art-producing areas of the tribal world. Exploiting to the full the technical and aesthetic possibilities of natural materials such as wood, clay, bone and feathers, craftsmen living in villages scattered along the Sepik and its tributaries have created masks, wood carvings and paintings that are not only distinctive and compelling in their imagery, but have had a decisive impact on modern western art. And yet, despite nearly a century of European contact, remarkably little of anthropological significance is known about the visual art from this region. Dr. Bowden's book makes a major contribution to our understanding of Sepik art by offering a detailed ethnographic description and analysis of one of the region's most well-known forms of sculpture: the wood carvings that are… Read More