Les Marquisiens et leur art. Volume III : Les collections. Histoire de l’art Les oeuvres des îles Salomon

Les oeuvres des îles Salomon

in this first part

Emile Gallé

accompanied by the demotic text transcribed in hieroglyphs and the Greek version 109-129 Revillout

encroaching on clerical domains

Les Marquisiens et leur art. Volume III : Les collections. Histoire de l’art Les oeuvres des îles SalomonThe Marquesans and Their Art is a must read for anyone interested in Marquesan civilization and Eastern Polynesia. It is the result of a detailed study of the various forms of artistic expressionthen threatened with extinctionconducted by Karl von den Steinen, a German doctor in the archipelago at the end of the 19th century. It has been a reference work since its first publication in 1925. Its success for nearly a century has never been denied, even