 | Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts Subjects: Solomon Islanders -- Material culture -- Solomon Islands -- Nendö; Solomon Islanders -- Solomon Islands -- Nendö x Social life and customs; Art Solomon Islands -- Solomon Islands -- Nendö; Sculpture Melanesian -- Solomon Islands -- Nendö; Nendö (Solomon; Ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island. Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, William H. Davenport earned his B.A. degree in anthropology from the University of Hawai'i in 1952, after attending the Art Center School in Los Angeles during 1939-41, and serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He received his Ph.D. degree in ethnography/ethnology from Yale in 1956. He was the author of more than 60 articles in scholarly and popular journals, museum journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias and book chapters. |
