Shields of Melanesia

by Harry Beran (Editor), Barry Craig (Editor)

This comprehensive compilation of Melanesian war shields illustrates more than one hundred types from all culture areas that used such objects. Barry Craig is curator of foreign ethnology at the South Australian Museum. Harry Beran, recently retired from the University of Wollongong, has written numerous publications on the art of Papua New Guinea.

308 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2003