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The Oldman collection of Polynesian artifacts : new edition of Polynesian Society memoir 15 / W.O. Oldman.
Penn Museum Library N7410 .O43 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oldman, W. O. (William O.), 1879-1949.
- Series:
- Memoirs of the Polynesian Society ; 15.
- Polynesian Society memoirs ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oldman, W. O. (William O.), 1879-1949--Ethnological collections.
- Oldman, W. O.
- Oldman, W. O. (William O.), 1879-1949.
- Art, Polynesian--Catalogs.
- Art, Polynesian.
- Ethnological museums and collections.
- Polynesia--Antiquities.
- Polynesia.
- Antiquities.
- Anthropology--Private collections.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 84 pages, 138 unnumbered pages pf plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland, N.Z. : Polynesian Society, 2004.
- Summary:
- During the later half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century in England, several famous private collections of ethnographic artifacts were assembled from the pool of "artificial curiosities" and souvenirs that had been circulating in Great Britain and the continent since the days of the first European explorers. Among these private collections, that of William Oldman was recognized as one of the most comprehensive and most important, especially for its Pacific component. He built up comprehensive series showing all the significant variations of each artifact type, making his collection supremely valuable for future artistic and scholarly studies.
- Contents:
- William O. Oldman : the man and his collection / Roger Neich and Janet Davidson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xxxiii) and index.
- "For this new edition, Oldman's original text has been reproduced from Polynesian Society memoir volume 15 using both editions (1943 and 1953). Supplementary plates and their captions from Polynesian Society memoir 22 in the Journal of the Polynesian Society, volume 53 (1944) have been incorporated."--Ed. note (p. xliv).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oldman, W.O. (William Ockelford), 1879-1949. Oldman collection of Polynesian artifacts.
- ISBN:
- 0908940068
- 9780908940066
- OCLC:
- 60530788
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