This massive exhibition catalogue of one of the world’s premier collections of the art of Oceania.  presents a broad and detailed overview of traditional art from Sumatra to New Zealand and across the whole of Melanesia and Micronesia.

A personal account of the lifestyle and culture of the indigenous peoples of the Vaitupu atoll in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu.  Hardback.  188 pages.  Local language glossary.  Near new condition.  Signed by the author.  Cat No 3339

An introduction to the art of the bark painter with descriptions of the preparation of bark, painting techniques and symbolism of subjects.  Illustrated with many full colour examples.  Hardback.  32 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3300

A sumptuous pictorial guide to Maori art featuring superb colour photographs of the finest artefacts of wood, bone, greenstone and fibre.  Paperback. 96 pages.  Includes Glossary and Bibliography.  New condition.  Cat No 3051

On Norfolk Island the early C19th colonial era cemetery at Kingston offers the clearest precis of life and death in one of the harshest penal colonies ever administered by Britain.  Inscriptions vary from crudely carved initials to elegantly scripted narratives of events leading to death - d

Scarce and early treatise on the ancient and traditional art of the Australian aboriginals illustrated with thirty-three b&w plates and a colour frontis.  Depicted are totems, cave and bark paintings and rock carvings.  94 pages.  Paperback in its original (slightly worn) dustw

Illustrated guide to rock engravings, rock paintings, shell middens, stone quarries, axe grinding, scarred and carved trees, burial and ceremonial sites. Large format paperback. 36 pages. Small stain to title page, otherwise good clean condition. Cat No 2650

An exhibition catalogue exploring the rock art and bark paintings of the aboriginal peoples resident in the Kakadu National Park in Western Arnhem Land of Australia's Norther Territory.

28 page booklet describing in detail each of the stone artefacts in the Perth Museum collection ranging from Maori clubs, through North American Indian arrowheads, stone tools from Fayum and Palaeolithic hand axes from Kent. Four b&w plates illustrate 66 of the artefacts.

A tombstone of a book containing 54 papers in 10 chapters from the conference held in Vina del Mar, Chile in 2004. English papers have Spanish abstracts, Spanish papers have English abstracts.