War Shields
New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon Islands
University of Hawai'i Press
Published on 24. January 2006
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-8248-2732-8 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive compilation of Melanesian war shields illustrates more than one hundred types from all culture areas that used such objects. Barry Craig is curator of foreign ethnology at the South Australian Museum. Harry Beran, recently retired from the University of Wollongong, has written numerous publications on the art of Papua New Guinea.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Honolulu, HI
United States
Illustrations
100 color illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-8248-2732-8 (9780824827328)
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