Customs of the World

Mortuary shrines, mask houses and sailing vessels from Melanesia and Polynesia stand out among the prints from Customs of th...

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Mortuary shrines, mask houses and sailing vessels from Melanesia and Polynesia stand out among the prints from Customs of the World, the ethnographic survey edited by Walter Hutchinson and published by Hutchinson in the early twentieth century, with an introduction by the anthropologist A. C. Haddon. Organised by region, the work covered communities across the world, and its illustrations range from portraits and scenes of work and domestic life to Māori clothing and childcare. The captions preserve the classifications and assumptions of their original authors and are themselves part of the historical record.

Mortuary shrines, mask houses and sailing vessels from Melanesia and Polynesia stand out among the prints from Customs of the World, the ethnographic survey edited by Walter Hutchinson and published by Hutchinson in the early twentieth century, with an introduction by the anthropologist A. C. Haddon. Organised by region, the work covered communities across the world, and its illustrations range from portraits and scenes of work and domestic life to Māori clothing and childcare. The captions preserve the classifications and assumptions of their original authors and are themselves part of the historical record.

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