STÉPHEN CHAUVET (1885-1950) “LES ARTS INDIGÈNES EN NOUVELLE-GUINÉE” |NATIVE ART IN NEW GUINEA] Paris, Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1930.
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1 folio volume of 351 pages and 114 plates.
Complete with folding map at the beginning of the book.
Original full basane binding with human face decoration (Ancestral ‘Gope’ tablet from the Papuan Gulf region. Purari river delta. Papua New Guinea) on each of the boards. Waxing.
In French.
33 x 23,5 x 4 cm
Doctor Stéphen Chauvet
Doctor, specialist and collector of the traditional arts of Africa and Oceania, which he helped to make known in France.