THE ASMAT OF NEW GUINEA.
The journal of Michael Clark Rockefeller. With his ethnographic notes and photographs made among the Asmat people during two expeditions in 1961. Documented by a pictorial and descriptive catalogue of the objects he collected. Edited with an introduction by Adrian A. Gerbrands. Pp. 350(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, folding coloured map at end, the title and headings printed in red, glossary of Asmat words, index of villages; roy. 4to; black cloth, lettered and decorated in red & white; original clear plastic printed dust wrapper, slightly rubbed, with small triangular piece torn from top edge of back panel; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1967. First edition. *From the library of Australian collector Fred Smith, with his bookplate on upper pastedown. Item #148822
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