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Creative Spirits: Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea

Creative Spirits: Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea


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The art of painting on bark was once widely found in many parts of the Pacific, including the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea, the home of the Kwoma people who are the subject of this study. The styles of the paintings and the subjects of designs were as varied as the hundreds of languages spoken in this region. Following European contact at the end of the nineteenth century, and the social change this brought, many New Guinea peoples discontinued producing their vibrant designs on bark. But in some areas the art form still flourishes. This book gives a detailed account of the art of painting on bark among the Kwoma, a people speaking a distinct language who display their barks on the ceilings of their ceremonial men’s houses. The book includes accounts of the work of a number of individual artists all of whom are represented by paintings in one or more major art museums internationally. This second edition has a new chapter illustrating thirty-three large-format Kwoma paintings on paper commissioned by the author in the course of his fieldwork in the Sepik. All thirty-three works on paper, along with forty-two of the barks illustrated, now form part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Australia). The book is a unique study of bark painting in a Papua New Guinea society and will have wide appeal to those interested in the art and ethnography of this region.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Dedication Note on the Text Note on the Second Edition Photographs List of Figures List of Tables Map 1 Sepik painting 2 Images of identity 3 The technology of painting 4 The elements of design 5 The Kwoma style 6 Shared images. Shared meanings? 7 Aesthetic values and artistic creativity 8 Learning to paint 9 Recent developments 10 Six painters and their paintings on bark 11 Works on paper Notes References Index

About the Author :
Ross Bowden is an Australian cultural anthropologist. His main interests are in the art, religions and history of societies in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea. He has published four books on the Kwoma of the middle Sepik (including a dictionary) and one on the neighbouring Kaunga-speaking Yalaku. His two most recent books are Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Lexington Books, 2022) and The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik (Sean Kingston Publishing, 2023).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789464263916
  • Publisher: Sidestone Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Sidestone Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 350
  • Sub Title: Bark Painting in the Washkuk Hills of North New Guinea
  • ISBN-10: 9464263911
  • Publisher Date: 31 Dec 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 178 mm


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