Howarth, Crispin with Waite, Deborah

Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands Crispin Howarth and Deborah Waite - Australia National Gallery of Australia 2011 - 128 Pages 27x21 cm PB

Includes Colored Illustrations and Index.

Through the finest traditional Solomon Islands art in Australia's museums and galleries, Varilaku explores kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the Indigenous aesthetics of the self--the use of adornments to express identity and status from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.

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Art, Solomon Islands -- Exhibitions.

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