"This is the first major museum publication dedicated to New Guinea Highlands art, celebrating its dynamism, innovative forms, and extraordinary use of materials and recognizing generations of Highlands artists. The Jolika Collection represents decades of focused connoisseurship. The Friedes, members of the Fine Arts Museums staff, scholars of Highlands visual culture, and anthropologists from around the globe have contributed their expertise to this book, researching and recording the collection's works so that they can be shared with the public"--