SÜDSEEKUNST SOUTH SEA ART - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ART OF THE BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO by Klaus Helfrich and published by the Royal Museum of Ethnology, Berlin in 1907.  145 pages of text in German Language with illustrations throuhgout.  Supplemental booklet in back contains 13 plates, some in color with detailed descriptions of artifacts.   BROKEN HINGES and text block is separating from covers.  Moderate toning throughout.  Housed in Brodart cover.  An import original copy of this work on the Bismarck Archipelago.  

This was a research and collection trip to Neumecklenburg (today's New Ireland) in Papua New Guinea, sent by the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin. Their goal was the comprehensive ethnographic and anthropological research of the then German colonial area. Stephan's previously created work on South Sea art was the first publication that dealt with the art of this region systematically and from the point of view of a scientist.

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