First cover of 'PACIFIC ENCOUNTERS.'

PACIFIC ENCOUNTERS.

ART & DIVINITY IN POLYNESIA 1760-1860.

Hooper, Steven.

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287 pp.; 340 illus., index, biblio.. Exh. cat. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. London, 2006. Pbk.

book nr. 9482                 € 45,00

Brings together many Polynesian objects gathered during the early period of contact with European voyagers, missionaries and settlers. This book presents around 270 items with short captions, including sculptures in wood and stone; feather and basketry images; decorated bark cloths; ornaments and valuables of ivory, bone and nephrite; and more.