Worthwhile Record Of Sepik Art

Muk Bilong Sepik is a collection of designs and paintings from the Sepik River collected by Helen Dennett. It is an excellently printed book, very pleasant to handle and printed hy Wirui Press, Wewak. It states that the text is by Paul Dennett. And that, I think, is my only criticism of the hook. Although it is a book to look at and a book to leach or a book for reading. I should like to see a little more text. We are used to art books giving some brief descriptions of the methods used, and I miss this from the present book, h is well to admire the designs and paintings, and all of them are highly admirable, but I'd like to know something of how they were done and the tools and the materials used in creating them.

Apart from that. / recommend the book as well-worth buying, and it would make a very good present for present-giving occasions. It is well produced and is a worthwhile record of the arts of the Sepik River. Perhaps in her next book. Mrs Dennett will think of me and tell how the works were produced and what went into making them.

Peter Livingston

(MAK BILONG SEPIK, a Selection of Designs and Paintings from the Sepik River, black and white and colour, 117 pages at K 5. or K 6 air to Australia and surface mail to elsewhere, from Wirui Press, Wewak).