• `Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea — exhibition catalogue front cover, 1963. Cream wraps with orange letterpress title lower right: "kunst uit nieuw guinea". Left: black and white photograph of a tall carved wooden ancestor figure (bis pole or similar), with a stylised face, open-work body, and flame-like projections at the crown. Age toning and handling wear throughout.
  • `Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea, 1963 — interior plate. Black and white photograph of catalogue no. 43: a carved wooden ancestor figure, open-work construction with a large rounded head, hollow oval torso, and elongated pendant legs. Dark patinated surface. Photographed against cream ground.
  • Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea, 1963 — interior plate. Two black and white photographs of carved wooden ancestor figures. Left: cat. no. 87, a bird-headed figure leaning forward, heavily textured surface, viewed in profile. Right: cat. no. 38, a frontal standing figure with large rounded head, open-work torso, arms at sides, and splayed feet. Both dark patinated wood on cream ground.
  • Two alt texts: Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea, 1963 — interior plate. Two black and white photographs of carved wooden ancestor figures. Left: cat. no. 87, a bird-headed figure leaning forward, heavily textured surface, viewed in profile. Right: cat. no. 38, a frontal standing figure with large rounded head, open-work torso, arms at sides, and splayed feet. Both dark patinated wood on cream ground.
  • `Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea, 1963 — interior plate. Black and white photograph of catalogue no. 21: a painted bark cloth panel with two vertical columns of bold geometric ornament — repeating rectangular frames enclosing diagonal and triangular forms in dark pigment on pale ground. Cloth shows fold lines and surface wear. New Guinea textile, date unspecified.`
  • `Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea, 1963 — interior plate. Black and white photograph of catalogue no. 12: a tall ceremonial figure or skull pole, heavily adorned. Cylindrical carved wooden body surmounted by a face with shell and fibre ornaments, spiral shell discs at the brow, and a large crown of dark feathers radiating outward. Shell collar, pendant ornaments, and carved lower body with splayed feet. Photographed against pale ground.`
  • `Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea, 1963 — Back cover page. Cream paper with handwritten pencil notes upper left reading: "Nieuw Guinea, Sept. nt 2 / — Maprik, kunstst. / — Prices / — 350. 50.60.000 / — 100 · top quality pieces". Below: hand-drawn outline map of New Guinea in blue ink, with regional names inscribed — Panoa, Korewori, Sepik, o Manaam — indicating the Sepik River region and surrounding areas. Colophon at foot: "ontwerp gerda c. van der laan gkf / druk meijer wormerveer".`
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KUNST UIT NIEUW GUINEA — Museum Fodor / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1963

KUNST UIT NIEUW GUINEA — Museum Fodor / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1963

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Museum Fodor / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1963. Exhibition catalogue. Designed by Gerda C. van der Laan. Softcover, stapled wrappers, 24 pp., 19 × 26 cm. Black-and-white photographic plates. Catalogus no. 337.

Published for the exhibition Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, 22 May – 30 June 1963. Works from the private collection of Peter Kohler, Ascona, including objects from the Sepik, Yuat, Keram, and Korewori River regions, the Chambri Lakes area, and Manam Island.

A compact exhibition document built from image, region, collection, and sequence. The cover places a single carved figure against a largely empty field, title set in ochre lowercase. Inside, the catalogue proceeds through isolated reproductions: masks, sculptural figures, textile fragments, ritual forms, carved objects held against blank paper.

The design is restrained and sharply staged. A brown vertical band runs through the interior spreads, functioning almost as a filing edge or display strip. Objects are numbered rather than explained at length. A private ethnographic collection becomes a municipal exhibition record: photographed, ordered, and circulated through the Stedelijk/Museum Fodor apparatus.

The back cover carries later handwritten notes and a sketched map-like form in blue ink — marking the object’s secondary life after the exhibition. These additions do not interrupt the catalogue so much as extend its condition: New Guinea becomes image, route, note, price, and retained paper.

Condition: Good. General toning, handling marks, soft creases, edge wear to wrappers. Handwritten annotations and blue-ink drawing to rear cover. Stapled binding intact. Original period item.

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