WELLSPRING. On the Myth and Source of Culture
Berkeley: 1975. 176 pages, 23 pages of photographs. Cloth cover. "...a book about African art and mode of the 'affecting presence'... ." More
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INDIAN LIFE OF LONG AGO IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
New York: 1934. xvi, 167 pages of text containing 2 maps, plus 31 leaves of drawings. Cloth cover. More
INDIAN LIFE OF LONG AGO IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
New York: 1934. xvi, 167 pages of text containing 2 maps, plus 31 leaves of drawings. Cloth cover , slight staining to front cover. More
ART OF COSTA RICA. Pre-Columbian and Sculpted Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Washington, D.C. 1985. 307 pages, 220 color photographs--almost all full or half-page, 143 b/w photographs, 25 drawings, 5 maps. Leather cover, folio-size (11 1/2" x 13 1/2"). One of the few major private collections in the U.S. of Costs Rican ceramics, the Sackler collection presents a cross section of many..... More
CONTRIBUTION A L'ETUDE DES RITES DE PASSAGE ET DES TECHNIQUES DES BOBO.
Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, No. 9, 1967. 120 pages. Mint condition. More
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS IN EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS
New York: 1986, 1988. 256 pages, 300 photographs fom the archives of the Bureau of American Ethnology, many never before published. Cloth cover. More
LES POPULATIONS DU NORD-TOGO.
Monographies Ethnologiques Africaines. Paris: 1963. 199 pages (some uncut) 1 map. More
BEITRAGE ZUR AFRIKANISCHEN KUNST
Ethnologica, Neue Folge, Band 3. Cologne: 1966. 425 pages , 87 pages of b/w photographs, 4 pages of color photographs, 20 figures. Four papers--dealing with the Benin collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museums, cire-perdu casting, Gabonese sculpture, and rock art in southwest Africa. More
GOLD BEFORE COLUMBUS
Los Angeles County Museum, 1964. 80 pages, 84 photographs of gold objects from Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in 14 museum and 7 private collections. More
THE ART OF CAMEROON
Portland: 1979. 392 pages, photographs of over 300 objects. Cloth cover with dust jacket, mint condition. Though most certainly'...not a complete account of the peoples of the Cameroon," it would be difficult to publish a volume more comprehensive than this. The complete catalogues of the Gebauer Collection of Cameroon Art..... More
GIFT OF THE COTTON MAIDEN. Textiles of Flores and the Solor Islands
Los Angeles: 1994. 287 pages, 165 color and 142 b/w photographs, 2 drawings, 8 maps. Cloth cover ed. More
FABRIC OF ENCHANTMENT. Batik from the North Coast of Java, from the McCabe Elliott Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum.
Los Angeles: 1996. 240 pages, 142 color and 102 b/w photographs, 10 pages of drawings, 2 douple-page, color maps. Cloth cover. A spectacular collection of batiks from Java’s north coast, a region known as the Pasisir, was rcently donated to and exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum. This catalogue..... More
THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE NATIVE RACES OF SOUTH AFRICA.
London, 1934, 1953; Johannesburg: 1965, 1968 (2nd ed.). 390 pages, 163 photographs. Cloth cover. More
ARTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS
New York: 1972 (reprint). 200 pages, 196 photographs, 4 full-page drawings by Miguel Covarrubias. Museum of Modern Art. Soft cover ed. The first major post-war exhibition of Oceanic art to be held in the U.S. spawned this Museum of Modern Art catalogue. Oceanic masterpieces were drawn from major museum and..... More
ARTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS
Museum of Modern Art. New York: 1946. 200 pages, 196 photographs, 4 full-page drawings by Miguel Covarrubias. Cloth cover ed. More
MASKS OF THE SPIRIT. Image and Metaphor in Mesoamerica
Berkeley: 1989, 1994. xxi, 254 pages, 16 full-page color photographs, 78 b/w photographs, 2 figures, 2 maps. The long history of masks in Mesoamerica and their use to synthesize the spiritual and historical Mesoamerican world and to reveal its mythological traditions are the principal themes of this richly written and..... More
LATE MOGOLLON COMMUNITIES. Four Sites of the Tolarosa Phase, Western New Mexico
Fieldiana: Anthropology, Vol. 49, No. 1: 1957. 144 pages, 56 photographs. Later cloth cover. More
PRAISE POEMS. The Katherine White Collection
Seattle Art Museum: 1984. 122 pages, 88 b/w and 9 color photographs. Soft cover ed. More
NATIVE AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
New York: 1989. 431 pages, 18 color and 358 b/w photographs, 201 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
LA PHILOSOPHIE BANTOUE.
Paris: 1948. 125 pages, 12 full-page photographs. More
ART PICTURAL DES PYGMEES
Geneva: Barbier-Mueller Museum, 1990). 104 pages, 22 full-page color photographs of Mbuti Pygmy bark cloths, 18 field photographs in color, 4 b/w photographs, 1 map. Edition limited ot 1,000 copies. More
THREE DOLLARS A YEAR. Being the Story of San Pablo Cuatro Venados, a Typical Zapotecan Indian Village, that Hangs ona Slope of the Sierras in Southwestern Mexico
New York: 1935. 121 pages, 17 pages of photographs. Cloth cover. More
MEXIKO, Und Seine Kunstschatze
Stuttgart: 1968, 1980. 257 pages, 228 b/w and 55 color photographs, 2 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
WEAVING A WORLD. Textiles and the Navajo Way of Seeing
Santa Fe: 1996. xvi, 114 pages, 41 full--age and 53 smaller color photographs, 5 b/w photographs, 1 drawin, 1 map. Using seventy Navajo textiles from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, prominent Navajo weavers examine the patterns and irregularities in these classic weavings and discuss the patterns..... More
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