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'Some Friends Came to See Us'

Lord Moyne's 1936 Expedition to the Asmat. British Museum Research Publications 206

By (author) Nick Stanley
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: British Museum Press, London, United Kingdom
Published: 30th Sep 2016
Dimensions: w 210mm h 297mm d 10mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN-10: 0861592069
ISBN-13: 9780861592067
Barcode No: 9780861592067
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Synopsis
Walter Edward Guinness (1880-1944), the first Lord Moyne, was an Anglo-Irish politician, businessman and explorer. Travelling across the globe in his private yacht in search for ethnographic material, Lord Moyne visited South Papua three times in 1929, 1935 and 1936. Unlike previous explorers of New Guinea, Lord Moyne and his group travelled along the rivers much further inland, and were able to make sustained contact with several groups of villages, engaging in performances and bartering for a range of objects that included shields and other carvings. Many of these objects were brought back to the British Museum as a means to address the severe lack of representation of South Papuan art and handicraft in the collection for which the area is renowned. Using the most advanced equipment to hand, Lord Moyne's party took some of the first photographs of the indigenous Asmat people. The wide-ranging series of photographs taken by his companion Lady Vera Broughton provide a unique account of indigenous Asmat life and culture at the time immediately prior to colonisation. many of which are published here for the first time.

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