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Shields of Melanesia
- Title
- Shields of Melanesia / edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig ; photography ... Cameron Bloom ; drawings, Doug Field.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, in association with Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GN668 .S47 2005q Oversize | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 287 p. : ill., maps (come col.); 30 cm.
- Summary
- Shields of Melanesia is the first comprehensive book of its kind and illustrates more than 100 types of shields from all culture areas of Melanesia that used such objects. Around 80 per cent of the shields illustrated have never before been published. The book also explains why the use of fighting shields in the South Pacific was confined to Melanesia. Adrienne Kaeppler, one of the foremost authorities on the cultures of Micronesia and Polynesia, has contributed a chapter on the protective devices other than shields that were used in those societies, and explains why shields were not used. The typology of war shields used in the book is based on an exhaustive survey of the literature, on the field experiences of the authors, and on a survey of the collections of the major Australian museums.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes references to New Zealand Māori.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-278) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Jim Specht -- 1. Introduction / Barry Craig -- 2. Felix Speiser on Melanesian shields / Harry Beran -- 3. North coast New Guinea -- North coast of western New Guinea / Todd Barlin -- North coast of Sepik-Ramu region / Barry Craig -- Madang region / Harry Beran -- North-east New Guinea / Eric Coote -- 4. Sepik-Ramu region -- Upper Sepik area / Barry Craig -- Washkuk Hills-Dreikikir-Maprik area / Barry Craig -- Middle Sepik area / Barry Craig -- Lower Sepik area / Barry Craig -- Middle and upper Keram and middle Ramu rivers / Barry Craig -- 5. New Guinea highlands -- Highlands of western New Guinea / Todd Barlin -- Highlands of central New Guinea / Barry Craig -- Highlands of eastern New Guinea / Chris Boylan -- 6. Southern New Guinea -- Southern lowlands of western New Guinea / Todd Barlin -- Kamula of western province / Tony Crawford -- Papuan Gulf / Reg MacDonald -- 7. South-east New Guinea -- Central province / Elizabeth Pryce and Harry Beran -- Milne Bay province / Harry Beran -- Oro province / Harry Beran -- 8. Island Melanesia -- New Britain / Noelle Rathmell-Stiels and Harry Beran -- Solomon islands / Bill Evans -- Postscript : were there shields in New Ireland? / Barry Craig and Harry Beran -- 9. Shielding in Micronesia and Polynesia : a different approach to warfare / Adrienne L. Kaeppler.
- ISBN
- 0824827325
- 9780824827328
- 1863331964
- 9781863331968
- LCCN
- 9781863331968
- OCLC
- ocm62869421
- 62869421
- SCSB-1430845
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library