torres strait collections a c haddon de moore david (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Black cloth/gilt. Slight corner wear, trace soil to board edges. Tight and unmarked. The DJ in mylar is slightly softened to points. With b/w plates. Text in English. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

London : British Museum Press, 1984. Quarto (280 x 210 mm), publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 110 pp. + 80 pp. with 450 b/w photographic illustrations; a couple of pale spots of foxing to preliminaries, else a fine copy. An important catalogue - scholarly and very well illustrated - of the material culture field-collected by Haddon on his expeditions in the Torres Strait between 1888 and 1898. The sections are: general ethnology (ie social units, life cycle, subsistence, mythology, ceremonial & magic, recreation, inter-group relations): the collections; the catalogue (the western islands; central islands; northern islands; eastern islands, Torres Strait, general).

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1984 , 109 pp 79 Plates with Artifacts in it A Description Catalogue David R. Moore Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications Limited Hard Cover, Used Book. Used Cover.