129 FIGS. 7a and b (below): Goodenough Island and Michael Martin and guides at its summit, December 1981. Author’s photo. Measuring 20 x 30 km, Goodenough Island is one of the steepest islands in the world. The center of the island is Mount Vineuo, an extinct volcano rising to 2,536 m at its peak. FIG. 3 (center left): Female head. Inyai-Ewa people, Korewari River, Middle Sepik. 19th century or earlier. Ex D’Arcy Galleries, Maurice Bonnefoy (1920–1998), New York (illustrated in Caves of the Karawari, 1968, fi g. 44); Hans and Suzanne Greub, Basel; Sotheby’s, Paris, June 2007; Christie’s, Paris, June 2013. Wood. H: 34 cm. FIG. 4 (right): Aripa. Inyai-Ewa people, Korewari River, Middle Sepik. 19th century or earlier. Ex D’Arcy Galleries, Maurice Bonnefoy (1920–1998), New York (illustrated in Caves of the Karawari, 1968, fi g. 104); James Barzyk, Chicago. Wood. H: 110.5 cm. FIGS. 5a and b (center left and below): Part of Martin’s collection of rare natural history books, including George Dawson Rowley’s Ornithological Miscellany, 1875–1878. Three volumes, London: Trübner & Co., Bernard Quaritch & R.H. Porter (contemporary red morocco binding). FIG. 6 (left): Plate showing Drepanoris albertisi (D’Albertis’ bird of paradise) from R. Bowdler Sharpe’s Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bowerbirds, 1891–1898. Two volumes. London: Taylor and Francis for Henry Sotheran (inlaid contemporary binding). T. A. M.: When did you acquire your fi rst object and from whom? M. M.: At fi rst I just looked at Oceanic art in museums. It didn’t occur to me that people actually collected it. I have been a serious collector of eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury color-plate natural history books all my life and have been lucky to form a very large collection of these. At all times my priority has been trying to fi nd the best copy of all of the rarest books. Even though I didn’t know any tribal art collectors, eventually I came to realize that I wanted to collect Oceanic art. I fi nally took the plunge and began by buying some pieces at a Sotheby’s sale in Melbourne in the early 2000s. The fi rst piece I bought was a very old and beautifully patinated New Caledonian bird beak club, which I still have. After that I began to search the internet for dealers and discovered Tribal Art magazine. T. A. M.: Does the process of collecting relate in some way to your profession as a radiologist? M. M.: Very much so. I decided to become a radiologist because it allowed me to fuse my interests in art, science, and medicine. My mother was an artist and I grew up in a house that was full of her paintings. I felt a
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