Where masks still dance
Subtitle: New Guinea
By: Chris Rainier ; essay by Meg Taylor ; forest stories by Chris Rainier.
Contributors: Taylor, Meg.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Pictorial works; Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Papua -- Pictorial works; Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works; Papua (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: New Guinea is home to more than one thousand aboriginal tribes - each with its own unique language, customs, and folklore that have changed very little in forty thousand years. In eight trips over the last ten years, photographer Chris Rainier has traveled to the island - to both Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya - to document the lives and rituals of these fascinating peoples in what is the most complete visual study ever made.

The result is Where Masks Still Dance - a stunning photographic expedition that captures the distinctive cultures of these indigenous peoples in page after page of hauntingly beautiful black-and-white images.

In short essays throughout the book, Rainier recounts the adventures behind the photographs - from trekking through leech-infested jungles to witnessing a ritualistic tribal war "rehearsal" - and notes the often disastrous influence of modern technology and values on the way of life of these simple, natural peoples.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-129).
"A Bulfinch Press book."