HEADHUNTING IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, AROUND THE CORAL SEA by CAROLINE MYTINGER - 1942

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942 Caroline Mytinger (March 6, 1897 – November 3, 1980), was an American portrait painter born in Sacramento, California, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is best known for her paintings of indigenous people in the South Seas during the late 1920s. These paintings are in the custody of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology on UC Berkeley's campus in Berkeley, CA. NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, BLACK AND RED DESIGN. PROTECTIVE COVER SEPARATED WITH FRONT AND BACK IN GOOD CONDITION. BOOK ITSELF IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, ARTWORK THROUGHOUT, MEMOIR OF MYTINGER'S EXPLORATION TRIP. EXCELLENT DETAIL AND DESCRIPTION. Solomon Islands is a sovereign country consisting of a large number of islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of 28,400 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). In 1926 she traveled to the Solomon Islands and Papua-New Guinea, with her childhood friend Margaret Warner and produced paintings and two books. They both returned to the United States in 1930. The two books about their experiences were published in the 1940s. In 1943 Mytinger bought a one-bedroom studio and became a permanent resident of Monterey, California an art colony on California's Pacific coastline. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE..