HEADHUNTING IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS : Around the Coral Sea
by Mytinger, Caroline
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New York, NY: Macmillan, 1942. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Poor. Caroline Mytinger (Author-Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & bright. Illustrated maroon linen boards/Fine. DJ/Poor; losses to edges & upper spine; under mylar. PO label to front cover verso. Map to front endpapers. Fine copy despite flaws. Travelogue. Memoir. Chronicle of an expeditiion to the Solomon Islands, nation state of islands in Oceania of Papua New Guinea of Sacramento-born artist Caroline Mytinger (1897 - 1980) and her friend Margaret Warner, spanning 1926 to 1930. Volume, illustrated with her paintings of indigenous people, are archived with the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology on UC Berkeley campus. In 1926 she traveled to the Solomon Islands and Papua-New Guinea, with her childhood friend Margaret Warner and produced paintings [1] and two books. They both returned to the United States in 1930. The two books about their experiences were published in the 1940s.[2] In 1943 Mytinger bought a one-bedroom studio and became a permanent resident of Monterey, California an art colony on California's Pacific coastline.[3] .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015239
- Title
- HEADHUNTING IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS : Around the Coral Sea
- Author
- Mytinger, Caroline
- Illustrator
- Caroline Mytinger (Author-Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Memoir/Adventure/Expedition/
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology/Ethnology;
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