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Ritual arts of Oceania, New Ireland : in the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum / Michael Gunn ; photographs by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini.
- Title
- Ritual arts of Oceania, New Ireland : in the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum / Michael Gunn ; photographs by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini.
- Author
- Musée Barbier-Mueller.
- Publication
- Milan : Skira, c1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | MUS.115.54.2.18 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 161 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 31 cm.
- Summary
- "For twenty years now the Barbier-Mueller Museum has mounted exhibitions that have travelled throughout Europe, North America, and the Far East. To people everywhere the museum has presented its extensive collections of tribal art, brought together over three quarters of a century by three generations of a single family." "For the first time ever forty pieces of sculpture from New Ireland, selected for their beauty, rarity, and originality, are being brought out of the museum's storerooms where they have been conserved - several for over half a century - and put on display in the galleries of Paris's Foundation Bismarck, a unique event that ran from 28 April to 28 June 1997. Unlike traditional tribal sculpture, largely limited to a number of conventional forms which native craftsmen have little choice but to respect, the masks and statues of New Ireland are striking for their freedom of invention. Animal and humanlike motifs are combined with infinite variety according to rules laid down by the rites employing such objects."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- New Ireland
- Subject
- Art > Bismarck Archipelago > Exhibitions
- Art > Geneva > Exhibitions
- Art > New Ireland Province > Exhibitions
- Art, Papua New Guinean > New Ireland Province > Exhibitions
- Ethnic art > New Ireland Province > Exhibitions
- Musée Barbier-Mueller > Exhibitions
- New Ireland Province (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
- Rites and ceremonies > New Ireland Province > Exhibitions
- Sculpture, Papuan > New Ireland Province > Exhibitions
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Fondation Bismarck, Paris, 28 Apr.-28 June, 1997 and other institutions.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-157) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Jean Paul Barbier -- The Bismarck Archipelago. New Britain. Tolai. Taulil and Butam. Baining. Sulka. Mengen. South Coast New Britain. Western and Northwest Coast New Britain. Bali-Vitu (also called Witu or French Islands). West Nakanai (Lakalai). Mussau (St. Matthias Islands). Manus (Admiralty Islands) -- New Ireland. Southern New Ireland. Central New Ireland. Northern New Ireland. Malagan Ritual Art Traditions of Northern New Ireland. -- The Ritual Context of Malagan.
- ISBN
- 8881182076
- LCCN
- ^^^97220239^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library