Primitive papermaking: an account of a Mexican sojourn and of a voyage to the Pacific…

[Detailed step-by-step descriptions of the indigenous processes of paper-making in various regions of the world including Mexico, Stanley Falls, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Includes materials used, images of papermaking, and samples. The focus of this book is non-Western papermaking, in particular tapa, made from the pounding of inner barks. As the craft had already disappeared in some places he visited, some of the specimens were old. He travelled to Mexico, Hawaii, the East Indies, and many Pacific Islands.]