First Edition and First Printing. With 180 illustrations, including 32 in full colour

Description

Great travel book with wonderful photography of a now vanished era in New Guinea. With many illustrations, including monochrome plates full colour photographs. Translated from French by Margaret Shenfield.

Published by Paul Hamlyn, London, 1963. Hardcover edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with black and white embossing of a tribal head on it. White lettering to spine. Coloured and illustrated endpapers.

Book Dimensions: 25 x 22 x 3 cm & Number of Pages: 309.

Condition
The book in very good condition. Dust jacket has edge wear with few small closed tears. Previous owners’ name and date on first blank page. Bright and clean pictures and text.

Headhunters of Papua

This fascinating book tells the story of an adventurous expedition into one of the darkest and least known corners of the earth. Book has some Anthropological writings explore themes in headhunting that include mortification of the rival, ritual violence, cosmological balance, the display of manhood, cannibalism, prestige by taking on a rival's spirit and power, and as a means of securing the services of the victim as a slave in the afterlife. This book brings headhunting to life, it was practiced up to and during the W.W.II.

Tony Saulnier, a "Paris Match" photographer, was one of the members of the expedition and supplied the narrative.