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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
British Museum Pubns Ltd
Publication date
July 31, 2016
Pages
90
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780861592067
ISBN-10
0861592069
Dimensions
0 by 8.26 by 11.69 in.
Original list price
$65.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Walter Edward Guinness (1880â1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in his private yacht in search for ethnographic material, Lord Moyne visited South Papua three times in 1929, 1935 and 1936. Unlike previous explorers of New Guinea, Lord Moyne and his group travelled along the rivers much further inland, and were able to make sustained contact with several groups of villages, engaging in performances and bartering for a range of objects that included shields and other carvings. Many of these objects were brought back to the British Museum as a means to address the severe lack of representation of South Papuan art and handicraft in the collection for which the area is renowned. Using the most advanced equipment to hand, Lord Moyneâs party took some of the first photographs of the indigenous Asmat people. The wide-ranging series of photographs taken by his companion Lady Vera Broughton provide a unique account of indigenous Asmat life and culture at the time immediately prior to colonisation. many of which are published here for the first time.
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from British Museum Pubns Ltd (July 31, 2016)
9780861592067 | details & prices | 90 pages | List price $65.00
About: Walter Edward Guinness (1880â1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer.
About: Walter Edward Guinness (1880â1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer.
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