GUIDE SOMMAIRE DU MUSEE ETHNOGRAPHIQUE

Author: Mr. A. VAN GENNEP
Material Type: general or thematic Work
Publisher: Attinger Brothers, Publishers, Neuchâtel, 1914. Paperback, 4to, size: 19 x 28 cm
Contents: 40 p, 2 b / w photos, 47 drawings, 2 shots, 41 fig.. including more than 120 objects illustrations reproduced in b / w
Additional information: original edition, limited release, Reprinted from the “Journal of Ethnography and Art comparison“. Work exhausted and virtually untraceable
State of the work: Very good condition

SKU: Réf. 25/510-[490] Category: Tag:

Description

This “Quick Guide” profusely illustrated is for the general public. Especially it is reported, as a result, the series that deserve to attract visitors not yet aware of the attention of the scientific ethnography; likewise, the illustrations rather reproduce parts or series of choices one would wish to see completed later, as the series of carved walking sticks, daggers of Upper Sanga or crossbows of Galoa; the series of wooden vases carved Bakuba and Kasai; the series of Gabon and Congo Belge statues; the series of statuettes of wood, painted white; the series of African musical arcs; Series flat hollow meat or seats carved Zambezi; the series of Barotse witch costumes; the series of objects of divination or Baronga among Basotho; the series of locks, padlocks or daggers of French North Africa; series Kobyles pottery from the mid-nineteenth century; the carved wooden series of New Guinea and the stilts of the Marquesas Islands and reams of Raratonga or the statues of Easter Island etc.

Additional information

Weight 260 g
Dimensions 19 × 28 cm