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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small pen name and a tiny hint of foxing. The jacket is very good. An extensively illustrated survey of Maori, Polynesian and Melanesian art, presenting objects from major New Zealand museum collections through Brian Brake's photography. It includes ancestor figures, ritual masks, carvings, jewellery, decorated domestic objects, weapons and canoe ornaments made from wood, bone, shell and stone. David Simmons explains the cultural meaning, use and materials of the objects, while James McNeish's conversations with Pacific artists and communities emphasise these traditions as living cultural practices rather than simply historical artefacts.…