Kastom

Kastom

Author: National Gallery of Australia

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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This book showcases a unique collection of the National Gallery of Australia. During the early 1970s an impressive array of traditional arts through a program of field collecting on the Islands of Ambrym and Malakula. Central to many traditional practices, better known as 'Kastom', are masked performances and displays of sculpture including iconic upright slit drums.