Historical ethnology: The context and meaning of the A. B. Lewis collection

Anthropos

Volumn 94, Issue 4-6, 1999, Pages 447-465

  Welsch, Robert L ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. B. Lewis; History of anthroplogy; Material culture; Melanesia; Museum collections; Papua New Guinea; Regional studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473881     PISSN: 02579774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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