Comparatively speaking
Subtitle: studies in Pacific material culture, 1921-1972
By: by Henry Devenish Skinner.
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Material culture -- Polynesia.; Art, Polynesian.; Polynesia -- Civilization.
Description: Introduction - Culture areas in New Zealand - The origin and relationships of Maori material culture and decorative art - Maori amulets - Whakapapa: human genealogies - Maori adzes from the Murihiku Region, New Zealand - Ulu in the Pacific - Murihiku hammers - South Island canoe paddles - Fishing harpoon heads in prehistoric New Zealand - Patu in the Pacific - The faking of Maori art.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [193]-197.