1935 Both Sides of Buka Passage

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition.

An excellent copy, in the publisher's original red cloth.

Illustrated with frontispiece, eighty plates, thirty in-text figures, and two folding plates to the rear. Collated complete.

A vast social study of social, sexual, and economical factors of life in the North-West Solomon Islands.

This work contains reference to marriage, pregnancy and birth, childhood, differences between boys and girls, diet and cooking, the food quest, art, economy, dreams, magic, spirituality, and the death ritual.

Written by Beatrice Blackwood, a British anthropologist who ran the Pitt Rivers Museum for over twenty years.