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Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts
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1. The collectors
2. Iconography and style
3. Worship and ritual
4. The Santa Cruz Island world view: cultural assumptions and mythology
5. Myths of the Santa Cruz Island Dukna

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Ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island.

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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.

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