AFRICAN ARTS MAGAZINE: A Quarterly Journal, Vol. 03, #4
Spring, 1970. More
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AFRICAN ARTS MAGAZINE: A Quarterly Journal, Vol. 05, #2
Winter, 1972. More
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February, 1986. More
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August, 1988. More
ARTS PRIMITIFS DANS LES ATELIERS D'ARTISTES
Paris: Musee de l'Homme, 1967. 180 pages, 158 photographs--many full-page. Sixty-six painters and sculptors of international renown--all collectors of primitive art--selected the finest objects from their own collections for a dazzling 1967 exhibition at the Musee de l'Homme. This out of print catalogue of that exhibition has great photographs of..... More
(Auction Catalogue) Kende Galleries, November 11, 1950. PRIMITIVE ART OF THE LATE FREDERICK KNIZE,
New York, Paris, Vienna. 64 pages, 203 lots auctioned (126 pre-Columbian, 36 African, 19 Oceanic, 18 Eskimo, NW Coast, and American Indian), 73 lots illustrated. Forword by Herbert Spinden. The entire collection, except for masks, had been displayed at the Naturhistortiche Hofmuseum, Vienna (the National Ethnological Museum in Vienna) from 1938-1945;..... More
(Auction Catalogue) Parke-Bernet Galleries, April 21 and April 29, 1966. (parts 1 and 2) THE HELENA RUBINSTEIN COLLECTION, African and Oceanic Art
New York. Parts 1 & 2: 250 pages, 262 lots auctioned (248 African, 14 Oceanic), 201 lots illustrated. The Rubinstein auction, the benchmark primitive art sale of all time, overnight changed the art world's perception of primitive (tribal) art, most notably African art. Prices never before imagined were realized, and..... More
Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 008, 1889. THE PROBLEM OF THE OHIO MOUNDS
C. Thomas. 54 pages, 8 figures. More
Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 014, 1889. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ATHAPASCAN LANGUAGES; Bulletin No. 15, 1893. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES (including the Chinook Jargon); Bulletin No. 16, 1893. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SALISHAN LANGUAGES; Bulletin No. 17, 1894. THE PAMUNKEY INDIANS OF VIRGINIA; Bulletin No. 18, 1894. THE MAYA YEAR; Bulletin No. 19, 1894. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WAKASHAN LANGUAGES
J.C. Pilling, (14)138 pages; J.C. Pilling, (15) 89 pages; J.C. Pilling, (16) 99 pages; J.G. Pollard, (17) 19 pages: C. Thomas, W.J. McGee. (18) 64 pages, 1 plate; J.C. Pilling,(19)xi, 70 pages. All six Bulletins have been bound together in a dark green, BAE cloth cover. More
Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 045, 1910. CHIPPEWA MUSIC
Densmore, F.xix, 216 pages of text containing 8 figures and 200 songs, plus 12 leaves of photographs. Cloth cover. More
Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 085. 1927. CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOX ETHNOLOGY
Michelson, T. 175 pages, 2 plates, 2 figures. More
Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 106, 1932. ETHNOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE MISKITO AND SUMA INDIANS OF HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA
Michelson, T. 198 pages, 10 plates, 1 figure. More
KULTUURPATRONEN, Bulletin Ethnografisch Museum Delft. DEEL 1, 1959
141 pages, 66 photographs of Indonesian and New Guinea figures, 13 drawings, 2 maps. Included in this volume are six papers dealing with Indonesian textiles and carved figures and Melanesian and Polynesian material culture. KULTUURPATRONEN, Bulletin Ethnografisch Museum Delft. The Delft Ethnographic Museum has, for almost 30 years, published this..... More
LES ESPRITS, L’OR ET LE CHAMANE. Musee de l’or de Columbie.
Paris: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 2000. 293 pages, 333 color photographs, 4 b/w photographs, 4 color drawings, 1 map. Small folio size, 9" x 12" More
RESEARCH IN MELANESIA. Vols. 11/12, 1987 & 1988
Boroko: University of Papua New Guinea. iii, 72 pages. More
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ANNUAL REPORT. for the Year Ending June 10, 1939; Bushnell, D. Jr. THE USE OF SOAPSTONE BY THE INDIANS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. and M. BARBEAU. THE MODERN GROWTH OF THE TOTEM POLE ON THE NORTHWEST COAST
xii, 567 pages, of which these two papers are pp. 471-489 (containing 7 figures) plus 10 pages of photographs, and pp. 491-498 plus 5 pages of photographs. More
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ANNUAL REPORT. for the Year Ending June 30, 1902; Mason, O. ABORIGINAL AMERICAN BASKETRY: STUDIES IN A TEXTILE ART WITHOUT MACHINERY
Glorieta, 1970, 1984--cloth cover reprint of 1902 edition. 378 pages of text containing 212 photographs and drawings, plus 54 pages of color illustrations and 194 pages of b/w illustrations. Pages 171-548. More
THE SOUTH AMERICAN HANDBOOK
Published in London by Trade and Travel Publications. Each volume is approximately 750-800 pages, and is bound in red cloth, decorated with a gilt map of South America. 1950 through 1966, lacking only 1952. sixteen volumes. More
NAVAHO WEAVING. Its Technic and History
Santa Ana: Fine Arts Press, 1934. xx, 263 pages of text plus 123 pages of illustrations: 108 pages of b/w photographs, 6 pages of color photographs, 9 pages of drawings, large fold-out color front-piece of saxony serape, drawn by Tom Lea. Decorated linen cover done in a 3rd phase chief..... More
ART DU NAGALAND
Geneva: Barbier-Muller Museum, 1982. 76 pages, 41 color photographs of objects in the collection, 24 b/w field photographs, 2 maps. Mint condition. More
CAYAPA INDIANS OF ECUADOR
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, Indian Notes and Monographs No. 40, 1925. Two volumes. Vol. I: xvi, 181 pages of text containing 13 figures, plus 90 pages of plates Vol. II: viii, pp 183-476 containing 16 figures, plus 52 pages of plates. Cloth covers. More
LA SCULPTURE TSHOKWE
Paris: 1982. 293 pages, 350 large b/w and 21 full-page color photographs, 9 drawings. 1 map. Coth cover. Mint condition. The almost overpowering art of the Tshokwe is subjected to an intense analysis of its styles, influences, and iconography in this volume, written by the authority on the art of..... More
THE MAORI AS HE WAS. A Brief Account of Maori Life As it Was in Pre-European Days.
New Zealand Board of Science and Art, Manual No. 4, Dominion Museum. Wellington: 1924. xv, 280 pages, 130 photographs, almost entirely of artifacts. Cloth cover. More