Pacific Encounters
Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860
Will be published approx. on 8. May 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7141-2575-6 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together Polynesian objects gathered during the early period of contact with European voyagers, missionaries and settlers, this book presents around 270 items with short captions, including sculptures in wood and stone, feather and basketry images, decorated bark cloths, ornaments and valuables of ivory and more.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
340 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 219 mm
Weight
1200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7141-2575-6 (9780714125756)
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Person
Dr Steven Hooper is Director of the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia. He specialises in the arts of the Pacific region and North America. His publications include Art & Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa & the Americas; the James Hooper Collection (1976), The Fiji Journals of Baron Anatole von Hugel, 1875-77 (1990), Pacific Material Culture (1995) and the Robert & Lisa Sainsbury Collection (1997, editor and part author).