GARDENS OF WAR

In a once unknown valley of great beauty, beyond the framework of our modern sense of time, lives a people until lately untouched by civilization, direct survivors of an authentic Stone Age. Gardens of War is a pictorial record of the Dugum Dani, a tribe of Neolithic warriors, during two seasons of 1961, when they were studied by the Harvard-Peabody Anthropological Expedition to New Guinea what is now West Irian. The Expedition's visit offered a unique opportunity, perhaps the last, for an intimate account of a virtually untouched culture. Sixteen pages of color photographs and 96 black-and-white illustrations are matched with a fascinating and superbly readable text recording a primitive world now belonging to the mists of time. This book's publication followed the release of Robert Gardner's ground-breaking film, Dead Birds (1964).

Written by Robert Gardner with extensive captions by Karl Heider and an introduction by Margaret Mead. 184 pages, 8 3/4" x 11 1/4", glossy full-color dust jacket with folded inside flaps, cloth-bound hardcover with green screen printing. First edition published by Random House Inc., New York, 1969. Designed by Conzett & Huber, Zurich, Switzerland and offset printed and bound by Amilcare Pizzi, Milan, Italy.