Author: Haddon, Alfred C.
Title: The decorative art of British New Guinea. A study in Papuan ethnography.
Description: Dublin, Academy House, [etc.], 1894. 279 pp. 92 b./w. fig, 1 map & 12 single-page lithographed plates (2 of them with some in colouring), each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Rebound in modern h.cloth binding, gilt title on the spine. Large 4to. - With collection stamp (cancelled) on the half-title. (Cunningham Memoirs, No. X).Extremely rare original copy. (No orig. copies on Picarta; one oig. copy on Worldcat). - Alfred Cort Haddon (24 May 1855 - 20 April 1940, Cambridge) was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman and Sidney Ray on the Torres Strait Islands. His work in zoology and on human evolution was meanwhile varied by studies of Decorative art in New Guinea (1894) and Evolution in art (1895).

Keywords: Ethnography New-Guinea Native Art Australia Oceania Etnografie Nieuw-Guinea Primitieve kunst Australië Oceanië