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Oceanic art: literature on particular types of artworks
At present, the bibliography includes mainly books and exhibition catalogues
focussing on a particular category of objects
Compiled by Harry Beran
hberan@btinternet.com
Last revised: July 21, 2012.
Let me know if you know of additions or corrections.
Architecture
- Duly, Colin. 1979. The Houses of Mankind. London: Thames & Hudson.
Bark/tapa cloth.
- Anati, Emmanuel. 2005. L’art du TAPA: Étoffe pour les Dieux Étoffe pour les
Hommes. Paris: insolite.
- Kooijman, Simon. 1988. Polynesian Barkcloth. Shire Ethnography.
- Meyer, Anthony. 1998. Tapa: Etoffe d’écorce d’Océanie Bark Cloth of Oceania.
Paris: Galerie Meyer
- Musée de cahors henri-matin. 2009. Tapa: Étoffes cosmiques d’Océanie.
- Neich, Roger and M. Pendergrast. 1997. Traditional Tapa Textiles of the Pacific.
London: Thames & Hudson.
Betelnut-chewing utensils
- Beran, Harry. 1988. Betel-chewing Equipment of East New Guinea. Shire
Ethnography
- Beran, Harry and Anthony JP Meyer. 2000. Spatules a chaux MASSIM Lime
Spatulas. Paris: Galerie Meyer.
Body enhancements
- Daalder, Truus. 2009. Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment: Australia Oceania Asia
Africa. Adelaide: Ethnic Art Press and Melbourne: Macmillan.
- Edmundson, Anna and Chris Boylan. Adorned: Traditional Jewellery and Body
Decoration from Australia and the Pacific. Sydney: Macleay Museu, University of
Sydney.
- Heermann, Ingrid and Ulrich Menter. 1990. Schmuck der Südsee: Ornament and
Symbol. Munich: Prestel-Verlag.
- Neich, Roger and Fuli Pereira. 2004. Pacific Jewellery and Adornment. Auckland:
Auckland Museum and David Bateman.
Canoes
- Haddon, A.C. & Hornell, James. 1936-38. Canoes of Oceania.
Honolulu: Bishop Museum. [Reprinted more recently in one volume.]
- Koch, Gerd (ed.) Boote aus aller Welt.. Berlin: ????
Fishing utensils
- Barton, Gerry and Stefan Dietrich. 2009. This Ingenious and Singular Apparatus:
Fishing Kites of the Indo-Pacific. Printed on demand in association with the
Völkerkundemuseum vPST, Heidelberg.
- Maaz, Klaus and Daniel Blau. 2012. Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands. Munich and
London: Daniel Blau.
Headrests
- Falgayrettes, Christiane. 1989. Supports des rêves. Paris: Foundation Dapper. [I
think this includes some Oceanic headrests.]
- Meyer, Anthony JP. 2005. Oceanic Headrests Appuie-Nuque Oceaniens. 2005.
Paris: Galerie Meyer.
Masks
- Mack, John (ed.) 1994. Masks and the Art of Expression. New York: Harry N.
Abrams. [Includes a chapter Masks of Oceania by Dorota Starzecka.]
- Murray, Thomas. 2009. Masks of Fabled Land. Masques des pays des fables. Mill
Valley, Ca: Thomas Murray Asiatica — Ethnographica. [Includes two masks from
New Guinea and a few from Indonesia.]
Pottery
- May, Patricia and Margaret Tuckson. The Traditional Pottery of Papua New
Guinea, Sydney: Bay Books. [Reissued later by Crawford House.]
Sound-producing Instruments
- Fischer, Hans. 1983. Sound-producing Instruments in Oceania. Translated from
German by Philip W. Holzknecht. Edited by Don Niles. Boroko: Institute of Papua
New Guinea Studies. Originally published in 1958 as Schallgeräte in Ozeanien: Bau
und Spieltechnik Verbreitung und Funktion. ??Strassbourg & Baden Baden: ???.
- Moyle, Richard M. 1989. The Sounds of Oceania: An Illustrated Catalogue of the
Sound Producing Instruments of Oceania in the Auckland Institute and Museum.
Auckland: Auckland Institute and Museum.
- Moyle, Richard. 1990. Polynesian Sound-producing Instruments. Shire
Ethnography.
Weapons, offensive and defensive
- Benitez-Johannet, P. and Jean Paul Barbier. 2000. Shields: Africa, Southeast Asia
and Oceania. Munich: Prestel.
- Beran, Harry and Barry Craig. 2005. Shields of Melanesia. Adelaide: Crawford
House Publishing Australia.
- Duuren, David van. 2001. De kunst van de verdediging: Schilden uit het
Tropenmuseum. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.
- Feest, Christian. 1980. The Art of War. London: Thames and Hudson.
- Fellacher, Johann. 2010. Shields.!: kunst aus neuguinea. St Pölten: Residenz Verlag.
- Lagardère, Geneviève. 1995. Arts de la guerre en Nouvelle Guinée. Solutre: Musée
Departmental de Solutre.
- Tavarelli, A. (ed.) 1995. Protection Power and Display. Shields of Island Southeast
Asia and Melanesia. Chestnut Hill: Boston College Museum of Art.
- York, Robert and gigi York. ?2012. Slings and Slingstones: The Forgotten Weapons
of Oceania and the Americas. Kent, OH.: Kent State University Press.