Following are some recommend titles for additional information on the art and people of Asmat, West Papua, New Guinea. If you know of a resource that should be added to this list, please do let us know!!
ASMAT: Myth and Ritual, the Inspiration of Art; 1996; Gunter and Ursula Konrad; ISBN 3-930115-11-5 - available exclusively through the American Museum of Asmat Art.
Asmat Sketch Books - a series of sketch books available through the American Museum of Asmat Art and through the Croiser Asmat Museum in Hastings, Nebraska.
Asmat Art : Woodcarvings of Southwest New Guinea; Dirk A.M. Smidt (Editor), A. F. M. Tigges (Editor), G. A. Zeqwaard (Editor); 1993; Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde; ISBN 0-8076-1299-5
Embodied Spirits; 1990; Tobias Schneebaum; ISBN 0-87577-155-6
Where the Spirits Dwell; 1988; Tobias Schneebaum; ISBN 0-8021-0019-8
Asmat Images; 1985; Tobias Schneebaum; ISBN 0-918928-59-2
The Search for Michael Rockefeller; 1972; Milt Machlin; Library of Congress 72-175266
Wow-Ipits; 1967; Adrain A. Gerbrands; Library of Congress 66-17949
To the Mountains of the Stars; 1963; L. Brongersma and G. Venema; Library of Congress 61-12498
The Asmat of New Guinea; 1962(?); The Museum of Primitive Art; Library of Congress 67-28143
Headhunters of Papua; 1962; Saulner, Tony; (from the 1959 French expedition (see also The Sky Above the Mud Below in Video)
I Come From the Stone Age; 1962; Harrer, Henrich; (author of Seven Years in Tibet)
70 Years of Asmat Woodcarving, December 1976 - May 1977 Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Afd. Breda, Hoogerbrugge, Jac and Kooijman, Simon. Written in Dutch, Indonesian, and English.
The Art of Woodcarving in Irian Jaya, October 1977; Hoogebrugge, Jac; Regional Government of Irian Jaya, Jayapura in cooperationn with United Nations Development Porgramme, Jakarta. In Indonesian and English.
Miscellaneous
This listing consists of book sellers that have access to limited edition, out of print, or rare books. We have purchased books for our own collection from many of these book sellers but make no endorsement on any company listed here.
Ethnographic Arts Publications
Gert Jan Bestebreurtje (Netherlands)
O A N / Oceanie Afrique Noire Bookstore
If you know of another book seller who carries ethnographic or art books and should be listed here, please do tell us!