Wow-Ipits: Eight Asmat Woodcarvers of New Guinea

The Hague and Paris: Mouton & Co, 1967. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 191pp. Quarto [27 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards. With a bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. In the illustrated dust jacket with rubbing to the spine and rear panel, and periodic closed tears to the edges (two backed with short pieces of tape). The longest closed tear measures just under 2 inches. Art in Its Context. Studies in Ethno-Aesthetics edited by Adrian A. Gerbrands. Field Reports: Volume 3.

This book is the result of eight months of ethno-aesthetic research in the village of Amanamkai on the southwest coast of the former Dutch half of New Guinea, now Irian Barat.