Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts

by William H. Davenport

Book Overview

In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies. The body of the book discusses the history of Santa Cruz Island society since the first Europeans came to the area in 1595, the cultural meanings of its most conspicuous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931707812
• ISBN13: 9781931707817
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"