[SANTA CRUZ]. DAVENPORT, William. Santa Cruz Island: Figure - Lot 194

[SANTA CRUZ]. DAVENPORT, William. Santa Cruz Island: Figure Sculpture and its social and ritual contexts. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2005. In-4, publisher's brown boards, in illustrated dust jacket. 231 pages, numerous b&w photographs in and out of text, 1 CD with 72 color photographs by the author. Text in English. Dust jacket slightly faded and worn, binding rubbed at head and corner, slight yellowing of margins. William H. Davenport's fascinating ethnographic study of traditional sculpture on Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific, with numerous photographs. The book presents a particular kind of figurative sculpture produced for use in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies. It is accompanied by a CD containing 72 color photographs illustrating the author's life in Santa Cruz before its independence in 1978. A good copy.