WOW-IPITS 8 ASMAT WOODCARVERS OF NEW GUINEA ADRIAN GERBRANDS 1967 PAPUA ART

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WOW-IPITS - EIGHT ASMAT WOODCARVERS OF NEW GUINEA
by Adrian A. Gerbrands and published by Mouton in 1967.  192 page hardcover with only light wear to dust jacket.  Housed in a protective archival Brodart cover.
This book is the result of eight months of
ethnolo-aesthetic research by the author in the village of Amanamkai on the Southwest coast of the former Dutch half of New Guinea, where the Asmat people live.  Of the twenty-odd wow-ipits (woodcarvers) in Amanamkai, a village of about 700 inhabitants, a selected eight are discussed.
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