Oceania at the Tropenmuseum / David van Duuren ; Steven Vink ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duuren, David van.

Contributor:

Vink, Steven.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Mededeling (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen)

Royal Tropical Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Material culture--Oceania.

Material culture.

Art--Oceania--Collectors and collecting--Netherlands.

Art.

Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)--Ethnological collections--History.

Ethnological museums and collections.

History.

Collectors and collecting.

Oceania.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

216 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : KIT Publishers, [2011]

Summary:

Beautifully illustrated with both color and b&w photographs, this book acts as a chronological overview of the history of the Oceania collection at the Tropenmuseum with a focus on why the collection has become internationally important and who has been involved in acquisition and presentation. Compiled by a recent curator of the Oceania exhibits in the Tropenmuseum, the book focuses on the main pieces in the collection, which is comprised mainly of artifacts from the Netherlands' colonial past in New Guinea, and largely ignores the minor side exhibits. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

"Royal Tropical Institute"--Cover.

"Volume two of a ten-volume series of the Royal Tropical Institute published between 2011-2015"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9068327526

OCLC:

730403132

Publisher Number:

99944269205