by BEN FINNEY with Marlene Among, Chad Baybayan, Tai Crouch, Paul Frost, Bernard Kilonsky, Richard Rhodes, Thomas Schroeder, Dixon Stroup, Nainoa Thompson, Robert Worthington, and Elisa Yadao Publ: University of California Press "A most significant work...that will materially add to the ongoing debate about the origins and migrations of the Polynesians." Patrick V. Kirch, author of Anahulu

by Gary Dierking. An excellent book for anybody wanting to build an Oceanic canoe.

by A.W.B. Powell. Those field notes, dated 1958, describe the construction of certain New Guinea native canoes. The canoes of the area mostly fall into one or another of the following three categories. A. Simple dugout of 9 to 10 feet in length with a single outrigger and minus attached bow-cover, prow or stern piece. B. Larger canoes up to 15 feet in length with an attached carved bow-cover of two sides transversely. Single or double outriggers. Detachable trip mast and square palm-leaf sail usually carried. C. Still larger canoes up to 25 feet in length with, in addition to the double sided attached bow-cover, an elaborate forwardly raked prow carrying accessory detachable fret-work ornaments. Two detachable tripod masts carrying square palm-leaf sails and between the masts a low canopy, with thatched roof erected on low uprights, the whole freely detachable to serve as a temporary shelter ashore when required.

A Disquisition on Prehistoric Celestial Navigation and the Nature of Seagoing Double Canoes with Illustrations Reproducting Original Field Sketches, Wash Drawings, or Prints by Artists on the Early Voyages of Exploration and Occasional Written Reports from On-the-Scene Obeserver by EDWARD DODD. "Edward H. Dodd Jr., 83, a Writer And Ex-Head of Publishing House " Published: December 21st, 1988 By EDWIN MCDOWELL Edward H. Dodd Jr., a publisher and an author of books about the South Seas, died of prostate cancer Monday at his home in Putney, Vt. He was 83 years old. Mr. Dodd was the great-great-grandson of Moses Woodruff Dodd, who in 1839 founded the publishing house of Dodd, Mead in a corner of Brick Church Chapel in old City Hall Park in Manhattan. Mr. Dodd served, as his father had, as president of Dodd, Mead and its chairman. Mr. Dodd was an inveterate traveler and a student of the cultures of Polynesia. After his graduation from Yale University in 1928, he sailed a 76-foot schooner to the South Seas with four classmates, a navigator and a cook in an adventure he wrote about in ''Great Dipper to Southern Cross'' (1930). That journey sparked his lifelong interest in the Pacific islands. He owned a house on one of the Society Islands, 200 miles from Tahiti, and until recently divided his time between there and his home in Putney. Five Books on the Islands Mr. Dodd wrote five books about Polynesia: ''Tales of Maui'' (1964), ''Polynesian Art'' (1967), ''Polynesian Seafaring'' (1972), ''Polynesia's Sacred Isle'' (1976) and ''The Rape of Tahiti'' (1983). Reviewing ''Polynesian Art'' in The New York Times Book Review, Ernest S. Dodge, then the director of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Mass., pronounced it ''not only a good book but the best-written book in the primitive-art field yet to appear.'' Mr. Dodd was born in Manhattan on June 25, 1905. He went to work in the Dodd, Mead shipping room in 1929, and the following year became a book salesman. He joined the editorial department in 1935 and became its head two years later. In 1953 he was named president of the house and remained in that capacity until 1957, when he semi-retired to write full time. From 1966 to 1975 he was chairman - or ''semi-active chairman,'' as he told an interviewer. In 1981, Mr. Dodd and his brother and sister approved the sale of Dodd, Mead to Thomas Nelson Inc., a Nashville-based religious publisher. Nelson sold the company to private investors in 1984, and the firm is now in liquidation. Divorced in 1950 Mr. Dodd married Roxana Scoville in 1932. They were divorced in 1950. His companion from then until her death in 1981 was Camille Oberweiser. During World War II, Mr. Dodd served in Washington with the Office of Strategic Services. He was the author of ''The First Hundred Years,'' a history of Dodd, Mead. The New York Times

The Sea Nomads is a study of the marutime boat people of Southeast Asia by Dr David E Sopher, Professor of Geography, Syracuse University, New York, USA.

Musee d'ethnographie de Geneve, written by Rene Fuerst. Exhibition catalogue 1988.

Travel by barge. It is those barges that left a lifelong impression on the artist and changed the course of his life.

Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea by Douglas Newton. Douglas Newton, 80, Curator Emeritus at the Metropolitan By HOLLAND COTTER Published: September 22, 2001 Douglas Newton, curator emeritus of the department of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and an innovator in designing museum displays of non-Western art, died on Wednesday at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was 80. Born Bryan Leslie Douglas Newton to English parents on a Malayasian rubber plantation in 1920, and educated in England, he worked as an editor, journalist and scriptwriter for the BBC before moving to New York in 1956. The following year he joined the Museum of Primitive Art, newly established by Nelson A. Rockefeller in a converted Manhattan brownstone on West 54th Street, as an assistant curator. In 1960 he became a full curator, and in 1974 the museum's director, succeeding Robert Goldwater. Mr. Newton organized 64 exhibitions for the Museum of Primitive Art, which is now defunct. His groundbreaking designs, with atmospheric lighting and striking installations, brought the museum both critical praise and public attention and had long-term influences on museum displays of so-called primitive art. ''He knows the fine line between showing sympathy for a tradition on its own terms and manipulating the tradition in terms of Western practices and expectations,'' wrote Robert Farris Thompson, a Yale art historian, in 1978. Mr. Newton went on to become the principal designer for major exhibitions in other museums, including ''The Art of Oceania, Africa and the Americas'' (1969) and ''Te Maori'' (1984) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and ''The Art of the Pacific Islands'' (1979) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. A fluent writer, he produced many monographs, including ''Crocodile and Cassowary: Religious Art of the Upper Sepik River, New Guinea'' (1971) and ''Arts of the South Seas'' (1999). He was also the editor of more than two dozen books on the art of the Pacific Islands. He was recently given the Manu Daula Award by the Pacific Arts Association for a lifetime of work devoted to the arts of Oceania. Mr. Newton was appointed consultative chairman of the department of primitive art at the Metropolitan Museum in 1974, and department chairman in 1975. That year, he began to oversee the transfer of the art collections, library and photograph study collection of the Museum of Primitive Art to the Metropolitan, which was given the collections by Mr. Rockefeller in memory of his son Michael, an anthropologist who died in 1961 while on an expedition in New Guinea. The works were displayed in the museum's new Michael C. Rockfeller wing. Mr. Newton supervised the design team for the wing, which opened in 1982. Its debut was hailed as placing the art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas on a museological footing with ancient and modern art. From 1982 until his retirement in 1990, Mr. Newton was the museum's Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede chairman of the department of primitive art. He was also senior adviser to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and was recently an adviser to the Quai Branly in Paris. He leaves no immediate survivors. The New York Times

Pirogues et Navigation chez les Vezo du Sud-Ouest de Madagascar. A collection of Essays by Marcelle and Jacques Faublee.

Par Jean Guiart. L'Univers des Formes" collection dirigee par Andre Malraux et Georges Salle.