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Varilaku : Pacific arts from the Solomon Islands / Crispin Howarth ; with Deborah Waite
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572.99593 HOW
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Canberra: National Gallery of Australia
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2011
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128 p. : col. ill., map ; 27 cm.
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9780642334206
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"Published in conjunction with the National Gallery of Australia's exhibition Varilaku ... 26 February - 29 May 2011".
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Book
Abstract:
Varilaku explores traditional practices, better known as 'Kastom', Kastom beliefs in ancestral ghosts, the world of spirit beings, ocean-bound raiding expeditions, and the aesthetics of the self - the use of adornments to express identity and status
from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.
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Contents:
Land, people and spiritual environment -- Body language as visual discourse among images from the Solomon Islands.
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