Author: NOOTEBOOM, C. (1906-1967), [
Title: A peculiar Piece of Northwest Sculpture. Offprint from:BKI, Vol. 123-1.
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1961. 8°. Contemp. printed limp wrappers, stapled. [7]pp. Captioned monochrome image of a Raven sculptured from the vertebral Arch of a finn-whale, 3 extensive captioned monochrome images, revealing by literature research the existence of some parallels or near-parallels of the Raven sculpture, extensive references, publ. advert. on inner front-, and both sides of lower outer wrappers. Emglish language scholarly paper, in which one of the finest speciments of primitive art which is a small bird made out of the vertebral arch of a Whale. Author informs about literature research in support of his interpretation of this fine piece of art from a plrivate dutch collection. Very good copy. Author worked for a long time as a civil servant in the Dutch East Indies, subdistrict Manggarai (Flores), Saleijer and Pangkadjene, Eastern Indonesia.

Keywords: whaling finnwhale vertebra sculpture raven bird interpretation primitive art nordic arctic culture heritage history research science dutch whaling