And some more pictures . . .

Crafts of Papua and New Guinea, by Colin Freeman and David Holdsworth, and The Human Aviary: A Pictorial Discovery of New Guinea, by George Holton and Kenneth E. Read, are two attractive picture books prepared by academics for the hoi polloi. Not the least of their attraction is their small format, for the Pacific must surely be heartily sick of those whopping coffee table tomes.

Freeman and Holdsworth are with the University of Papua and New Gumea, and their full-colour photograps illustrate PNG houses, canoes, handicrafts, pottery and ceremonial displays. They’ve made a representative selection of the main art forms, and kept text down to a minimum. The book is published by Rigby Ltd., Adelaide, at $2.50. an Australian who is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, and freelance photographer Holton, give us more text; their photographic theme (in colour) is almost the same although it lays more stress on people. Read’s text is an evocative pen-picture of the territory, and this little book is better value than most larger volumes on the same general theme. It’s part of Scribner’s Natural History Portfolio senes, our copy from the Sydney distributors. Feffer and Simons Inc.. $4.95.