Shields of Melanesia / edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig ; photography ... Cameron Bloom ; drawings, Doug Field.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beran, Harry.

Craig, Barry.

Bloom, Cameron.

Field, Doug.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shields--Melanesia.

Shields.

Melanesia--Antiquities.

Melanesia.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xix, 287 pages : illustrations, maps (come color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, in association with Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, [2005]

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive compilation on the war shields of Melanesia. The volume illustrates more than one hundred types of shields from all culture areas of Melanesia that used such objects. The typology adopted in the book is based on an exhaustive survey of the literature, on the field experience of the authors, and on a survey of the collections of the major Australian museums.

Contents:

Types of Shields Identified xv

2 Felix Speiser on Melanesian Shields / Harry Beran 13

3 North Coast New Guinea 27

3.1 North coast of western New Guinea / Todd Barlin 28

3.2 North coast of Sepik-Ramu region / Barry Craig 32

3.3 Madang region / Harry Beran 46

3.4 North-east New Guinea / Eric Coote 57

4 Sepik-Ramu Region 71

4.1 Upper Sepik area / Barry Craig 75

4.2 Washkuk Hills-Dreikikir-Maprik area / Barry Craig 89

4.3 Middle Sepik area / Barry Craig 92

4.4 Lower Sepik area / Barry Craig 99

4.5 Middle and upper Keram and middle Ramu rivers / Barry Craig 101

5 New Guinea Highlands 111

5.1 Highlands of western New Guinea / Todd Barlin 112

5.2 Highlands of central New Guinea / Barry Craig 117

5.3 Highlands of eastern New Guinea / Chris Boylan 126

6 Southern New Guinea 155

6.1 Southern lowlands of western New Guinea / Todd Barlin 155

6.2 Kamula of Western Province / Tony Crawford 167

6.3 Papuan Gulf / Reg MacDonald 168

7 South-east New Guinea 179

7.1 Central Province / Elizabeth Pryce, Harry Beran 180

7.2 Milne Bay Province / Harry Beran 191

7.3 Oro Province / Harry Beran 207

8 Island Melanesia 217

8.1 New Britain / Noelle Rathmell-Stiels, Harry Beran 218

8.2 Solomon Islands / Bill Evans 237

8.3 Postscript: Were there shields in New Ireland? / Barry Craig, Harry Beran 254

9 Shielding in Micronesia and Polynesia: A different approach to warfare / Adrienne L. Kaeppler 259

1 Arrangement of chapters and sections xviii

2 Distribution of shield types in Melanesia 20

3 North coast of western New Guinea 28

4 North coast Sepik-Ramu region 34

5 Madang region and north-east New Guinea 50

6 Sepik-Ramu region 72

7 Highlands of western New Guinea 114

8 Highlands of central and eastern New Guinea 128

9 Southern lowlands of western New Guinea 154

10 South coast of eastern New Guinea 170

11 South-east New Guinea 182

12 New Britain and New Ireland 220

13 Solomon Islands 238

14 The Pacific 258.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index.

ISBN:

0824827325

OCLC:

62869421