Welsch, Robert Louis, 1950-

Coaxing the spirits to dance : art and society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea / Robert L. Welsch, Virginia-Lee Webb, Sebastian Haraha. - Hanover, N.H. : Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College ; c2006. - xiii, 104 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 31 cm.

Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., Apr. 1-Sept. 17, 2006, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., Oct. 24, 2006-Sept. 2, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-99) and indexes.

Coaxing the spirits to dance / Robert L. Welsch -- The changing meaning of art in the Papuan Gulf : a view from the Papua New Guinea National Museum / Sebastian Haraha -- In situ : photographs of art in the Papuan Gulf / Virginia-Lee Webb -- Ex situ : a brief history of collecting in the Papuan Gulf / Robert L. Welsch.

094472230X (pbk.)

2006000338


Material culture--Exhibitions.--Papua New Guinea
Art, Melanesian--Exhibitions.--Papua New Guinea


Papua New Guinea--Antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Exhibitions.

306.09953 / W458