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Primitive Art Bibliographies The Library The Museum of Primitive Art 15 West 54 Street New York 19, New York NO. IV 1965 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SEPIK DISTRICT ART ANNOTATED FOR ILLUSTRATIONS, PART 1 by DOUGLAS NEWTON BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SEPIK DISTRICT ART ANNOTATED FOR ILLUSTRATIONS, PART 1 by Douglas Newton The Museum of Primitive Art This is a working list of material on the visual arts in the Sepik District of New Guinea published up to 31 December 1964, its purpose being the provision of a guide to the very considerable amount of documentation already in print. It does not ad here strictly to the administrative boundaries of the District: some items on the coastal area to the east of the Ramu have been included, since these are obviously stylistically related to work from the District itself. The first part, printed here, is a listing of individual documents, each followed by notes on the illustra tions it includes. The second part, to appear in the near future, will be an index, by provenience and class of object, to these notes. The entries are of two main kinds. The first consists of books and articles, whether illustrated or not, specifically devoted to the area. Here I have gone beyond the limitations implied by "the arts", and have included some works primarily dealing with general ethnology. To some extent this is unavoidable, owing to the authors' methods of presenting their material; but I have added rather generously to this cate gory in the hope that some items may provide background, or side-lights, for the sub ject. More than this is not the function of the present compilation, in view of the existence of the Sepik District Anthropological Bibliography. The other kind of entry, by far the larger, includes books, articles, catalogues and ephemera not mainly concerned with the area but including illustrations of Sepik Dis trict art. These entries have been compiled on a catch-all basis, with the assump tion that what the student of any particular aspect will find most useful is the max imum quantity of material, regardless of its quality. Inevitably there is a good deal of duplication; quite a number of old war-horses reappear several times. A few instances in which reproductions have been duplicated are silently ignored, but on the whole my tendency has been to incorporate as much as possible. Book reviews and bibliographies and separately published maps have been excluded. Most titles are followed by listings of the illustrations they include. There are, however, significant exceptions which include the fundamental works of Bateson (28), Mead (19M, an|3- a few others. Above all, it would be not only impossible to analyse the hundreds of illustrations in Reche (259) but in a sense unnecessary, as the book remains the basis for any study of material culture in the lower and middle Sepik areas. In the listings themselves, words enclosed in square brackets CJ are my attributions, those not so enclosed being the authors'. In a number of cases I have seen museum or collection records on the basis of which these bracketed attributions have been made, in others they are derived from comparison of publications. Many are not only such amplifications, but expressions of my personal opinion which sometimes conflict with the original author's: I have not attempted to distinguish between these kinds of attributions. The majority are not critical; they are rough-and-ready fingerpost- ing to research, not a completed example of it. Hence a certain overlapping of terms between "Lower Sepik" (abbreviated as L.S.) and "Coastal Sepik", for instance, and few refinements beyond "latmul" and "Tchambuli" as amplifications of "Middle Sepik" (M.S.). However, I have in all cases preferred village names, where they are estab lished, to those of tribes or areas. Reference to the Index should clear up any problems arising from this scheme; as it also should the difficulties caused by the use of variant place-names. The location of each illustration is indicated by the abbreviations; pcage:, figcure:, abbcteilung:, plcate:. Objects given exhibition or auction numbers are assigned as: item cno. follows:. These indicators are only given at the beginning of a series of such; thus all numbers after: pi will be plates, up to e.g.: fig after which numbers will denote figures. A subsequent: pi indicates that plate numbers are now resumed. 2 The basis for the first version of this list was Taylor's Pacific Bibliography. I have also drawn on the continuing Bibliographie de l'Oceanie in the Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes^ (many items in which I have been unable to trace), the Peabody Museum Library Catalogue and the Sepik District Anthropological Bibliog raphy. I am indebted also to Professor Douglas Fraser for several references. The great majority of the entries have been checked with the originals, but a very few have been lifted sight unseen from these previous bibliographies. Lengthy as the result may seem, by its very nature such an attempt as this is bound to have omissions. Since the present bibliographies are intended to be part of a continuing series, information about such omissions, and about inaccuracies in the entries, is requested and will be most gratefully received. 1. Australian National University. Department of Anthropology and Sociology. Sepik District anthropological bibliography compiled by the staff. Canberra, 19&3• 2. C. R. H. Taylor. A Pacific bibliography. Wellington, 1951- (Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, 2k) 3- Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes, v.l-. Paris, 1945-• 4. Harvard University. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library. Catalogue. Boston, 1963- 54v. ADAM, Leonhard BALTIMORE. MUSEUM OF ART (cont'd.) 1 1954 Primitive art. (3rd ed. ) London. 11 1956 Masks: cover cKararau? gable]; p. 26 cTchambuli canoe prow]; clatmul]; 27 Skull: pi. lob clatmul3. Ancestor stool: Mundugumor. Flute figures: 8,9 17 clatmul3. Mask: 18a cL.S.3. Pot: l8b Mundugumor. Skull: 10 Tchambuli. Hook: cAibom:. Stone figure: 19a, b Ramu. Malu: 11 clatmul]. Figure: 25 cL.S.]. Lime fig- 33 cTshuosh] from Tambanum. box: 29 :latmul]. ALTMAN, Ralph C. BASEL. KUNSTHALLE 1964 Arts from the Sepik River, New Guinea. 12 1962 Die Kunst Neu-Guineas. 27. Jul! bis l6. CA The Magazine of the Communication September. Introduction by A. Buhler. Arts, 6: 6O-65. Figures: fig. 11 cL.S.ij 23 Palimbei, Head: fig. 1 Washkuk. Figures: 2, 6 from gable; 25, 27, 28 Yuat. Feather Abelam. Hooks: 3, 4, 5 clatmul]. Bas shields: 12, 13 Keram. Clayed shield: ketry masks: 7, 8 Abelam; 9 Blackwater 16 Keram. Paintings: 17 Abelam; 24 River. Headdress: 10 cAbelam:. Yipwon: Kambrambo. Carvings: 18 Abelam, 20 11 Karavari. Bird: 12 Abelam. latmul, 34 Coastal. Ancestor stool: 19 latmul. Jar: 21 Aibom Pottery Finial: AMSTERDAM. MUSEUM FODOR 22. Yipvon: 26 Karawari. Masks: 29, 30 3 1963 Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea. Verzameling Kararau a wan; 31 M.S. gable. Hooks: 32 Peter Kohler, Ascona. 22 Mei - 30 Juni, Tchambuli, 35 Blackwater River, latmul. Catalogus no. 337• Amsterdam. Flute figure: 33 Mundugumor. Figures: cover cKarawari], p. 2, items BASEL. MUSEUM FUR VSLKERKUNDE 36, 46, 87, back cover cL.S.ij item 43 13 1930 Neu-Guinea. (its Fuhrer). Basel. Singrin; item 38 Manam. Flute figure: 12 Mundugumor. Canoe ornament: 195 Skull: fig. 4 clatmul]. Shield: 5 £Yuat cM.S.]. Stone figure: 5 Coastal. River?] Kapkap: 233 Manam. 14 1941 Kunststile in der Sudsee. (Its Fuhrer). AMSTERDAM. STEDELIJK MUSEUM Basel. Text by F. Speiser. 4 1950 Kunst van het Zuidzeegebied. Amsterdam (uitgave Stedelijk museum Amsterdam Shield: fig. 2 £Yuat River?]. Painting: No. 66). Amsterdam. 3 Kambrambo. Canoe prow: 4 £latmul: Figure: 8 cL.S.] Skull: pi. (4) clatmul]. Masks: (6), (7) cL.S.]. Pounder: (8) cL.S.3. 15 1954 Kunstwerke vom Sepik. Sonderausstellung Ancestor stool: (9) clatmul:. Neck 1. October bis. 31- Dezember. (its rest: (9) cL.S.]. Fuhrer). Basel. Text by Paul Wirz. ANTWERP. KONINKLIJK MUSEUM VOOR SCHONE KUNSTEN Skull-rack: cover, latmul. Shield: abb. 1956 Het masker. Alle volker - alle tijden. 1 fYuat:. Canoe prow: 2 Kope. Canoe Antwerpen. shield: 3 Kamindimbit. Hair ornaments: 4, 6 latmul; 5 Tambanum. Jar: 7 £Aibom?:. Items: 387, 390 latmul; 391 Mundugumor. Ancestor stools: 9-10 Mandanam; 11 Yentschamangua; 12-14 Kararau. Hooks: 15 ARCHER, W. G. and MELVILLE, Robert Yentschamangua; 16, 17, 18 Kanganaman. 6 n.d. 40,000 years of modern art. London Figures: 19 Betmangambi, 20 Shotkamanagwi Mindimbit; 22 Tambanum; 23 Kamindinibit. Hook: p. 29 cL.S.3 Flute figure: 25 Mundugumor. Boards: 21 latmul; 24 malu Kararau. Mask: 26 ARCHEY, Gilbert Mevambur-awan Kararau. Gable masks: 27, 7 1949 South Sea folk. Handbook of Maori and ?R yn.hriTnn.Ti • PQ Tambanum. Paintings: 30, Oceanic ethnology (2nd ed. ). Auckland 31 Kambrambo; 32 Kanganaman. Carving: War Memorial Museum. 33 Abelam. Hornbill: 34 Abelam. Snake: 35 Abelam. Masks: pi. 10,2 clatmul]; figs. 153-154 cL.S.]; 154 cMundugumor:. Figure: 16 1958 Heilige Bildwerke aus Neuguinea. 151-152 cL.S.] Sonderausstellung van 9. November 1957 bis 31 Marz 1958. (its Fuhrer). Text ARTS by A. Buhler. Basel. 8 1956 Art of the South Seas: Baltimore's Oceanic exhibition. Arts. 30 February: Ceremonial houses: p. 17 Yamangan; 19 14-15• Ulupu; 24, 26 Numumoaka; 31, 33 Washkuk; 35, 38 Kanganaman. Artists: 18, 20 Ulupu. AUFENANGER, H. Carvings: 21 Bogmukem; 27 Numumoaka. 9 i960 Jugendweihe und Weltbild am mittleren Dancers: 22, 23 Ulupu; 30 Numbunga; 34 Sepik. Anthropos, 55: 135-144. Washkuk. Clay mask: 40 cL.S.] BALTIMORE. MUSEUM OF ART 17 1959 Mensch und Handwerk. Die Topferei. 10 1955 Oceanic art: a new gift to the Museum. Sonderausstellung vom 1. Marz bis 31- Baltimore Museum News, 19 December: 1-5.