THE SONG OF THE LOOM. NEW TRADITIONS IN NAVAJO WEAVING
New York: 1987. 130 pages, 83 color and 19 b/w photographs. Cloth cover. More
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POLYNESIAN ART, The Ring of Fire, Vol. I
London: 1969. (First UK edition of Polynesian Art, the Ring of Fire. Vol. I, New York, 1967). 368 pages, 452 large photographs of over 1,000 objects--many never before or since published. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Fine condition. More
MASTERPIECES OF INDIAN AND ESKIMO ART FROM CANADA; CHEFS-D'OEUVRE DES ARTS INDIENS ETYESQUIMAUX DU CANADA
Paris: Musee de l'Homme, 1969. 276 pages, 147 b/w and 6 color photographs--all large, many full-page. Text in English and French. More
PLEASING THE SPIRITS, A Catalogue of a Collection of American Indian Art
New York: 1982. 380 pages, 400 b/w and 50 color photographs. Cloth cover. A dazzling private collection of Indian art was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in three exhibitions--each devoted to a segment of this collection--beginning in 1982. This catalogue of this hitherto unpublished collection (only 39 of..... More
BATAKLANDEN (Deel VIII) plus MALEISCHE LAND EN TER SUMATRA’S NOORDOOSTKUST (Sumatra II).
RIJKS ETHNOGRAPHISCH MUSEUM, (Deel VIII) and (Sumatra II): 1914. 208 pages of text containing 31 drawings and photographs plus 1 page of color photographs and 11 pages of b/w photographs of 40 objects--carved staffs, weapons, jewelry, basketry, masks, textiles, and carved figures. Near mint condition. More
SUD-SUMATRA (Sumatra IV).
RIJKS ETHNOGRAPHISCH MUSEUM, Band XII, Leiden: 1918. 300 pages of text containing 37 drawings and photographs plus 16 pages of photographs of 90 objects--jewelry, personal decorative objects, clothing, decorated basketry and textiles, headdresses, weapons, altar objects, containers, and houses. Later coth cover over original wrappers. Near mint condition. More
ARCHEOLOGIE DES NOUVELLES-HEBRIDES. Contributions a la Connaissance des Iles du Centre
Societe des Oceanistes, Publication No. 30. Paris: 1972. vii, 156 pages of text, plus 250 unpaginated pages of illustrations containing hundreds of photographs, drawings and many maps. More
LES MANDJA. Congo Francais. Sociologie Descriptive
Collection de Monographies Ethnographiques, VIII. Brussels: 1911. xxiv, 574 pages containing 9 drawings, plus 2 pages of photographs of artifacts, 1 fold-out map. Later cloth cover over original wrappers. More
ETHNIC AND TOURIST ARTS
Berkeley: 1977. Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World. 444 pages. 128 b/w and 12 color photographs, 9 maps. Cloth cover. More
ART OF NORTHWEST NEW GUINEA. From Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay, and Lake Sentani
New York: 1992. 224 pages, 150 color and 140 b/w photographs, 10 drawings, several maps. Cloth cover. The first study in over twenty years of the art of Northwest New Guinea, this new volume illustrates more than 200 works form Geelvink Bay, Humboldt Bay, and Lake Sentani. Drawn primarily from..... More
COSTUMES OF SOUTH AMERICA.
New York: 1941. 38 color plates (of 40--lacking plates 2 and 33), each with a drawing of a man or a woman in traditional early 20th century (1910-1935) costumes. The drawings are of indigenious peoples in their costumes, representing Argentina, Boliva, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dutch Guiana, Ecuador, Panama, Patagonia, Peru..... More
SERPENT WORSHIP IN AFRICA; Field Museum, Anthropological Series, Vol. XXI, No. 1
1931. 85 pages of text, plus 8 leaves of photographs. Inscription by author. Cover slightly worn, otherwise fine. More
FACE OF THE SPIRITS. Masks from the Zaire Basin
Antwerp: Ethnographic Museum, 1993. 262 pages, 110 full-page color photographs of masks, 5 smaller color photographs, 56 b/w photographs, 1 drawing, 7 maps in b/w and 1 color, fold-out map. Cloth cover, small folio size (10" x 13"). A dazzling exhibition of masks of the Bantu peoples of Zaire and..... More
LA RIME ET LA RAISON. Les Collections Menil (Houston-New York); (exhibition catalogue)
Paris: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 1984. 422 pages, 637 small b/w photographs of African, Oceanic, pre-Columbian, Eskimo, Northwest Coast, Native American, Ancient and 20th century European and American art; plus approximately 235 pages of large b/w and color photographs of art from all of the above groups. Fine condition..... More
PEARLS AND SAVAGES. Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea--in New Guinea
New York & London: 1924. xiii, 414 pages, 80 photographs--almost all full-page-of the people, customs, rituals, and artifacts of western New Guinea. Cloth cover. More
NOTES SUR LA VIE FAMILIALE ET JURIDIQUE DE QUELQUES POPULATIONS DU CONGO BELGE
Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Ethnographie et Anthropologie, Serie III, Tome I, Fasc. I, 1909. xi, 104 pages, 26 photographs, 2 drawings, 1 fold-out map in text and 1 fold-out map in rear, 1 fold-out chart. Later cloth cover over original wrappers, gilt lettering, fine condition. folio size, 11"..... More
JEWELRY OF THE PREHISTORIC SOUTHWEST
Albuquerque: 1978. 272 pages, 101 b/w and 16 color illustrations of hundreds of objects. Cloth cover. Probably the best volume available on Southwest jewelry--with particular emphasis on prehistoric and historic jewelry. The formal, cultural, and chronological relationships of the jewelry of the three great cultural tradition of the Southwest--Hohokam, Mogollon..... More
THE ART OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
Washington D.C. 1979. 365 pages, 405 b/w 13 color photographs. Brief inscription by Douglas Newton. One of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Pacific Art ever mounted was held the summer of 1979 at the National Gallery of Art. This dazzling exhibition was comprised of over 400 objects, many of them..... More
AFRIKANISCHE KUNST
Museum fur Volkerkunde: Munich, 1976. 279 pages, 144 b/w and 8 full-page color photographs. More
MEDIEVAL AMERICAN ART
New York: 1943. (two volumes). Vol. I (text): 413 pages. Vol. II (illustrations): 378 pages, 306 plates containing approximately 1300 photographs of pre-Columbian architecture, sculpture, pottery, weaving, metal-work, jade and other semiprecious stones, murals and manuscripts, and miscellaneous applied arts. Cloth cover. More
THE ART OF THE ANCIENT MAYA
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1959. 124 pages, 95 b/w photographs--all large, may full-page and 4 full-page color photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
WESTAFRIKANISCHE PLASTIK, Vol. I
Berlin: 1965. Museum fur Volkerkunde, 416 pages, 272 photographs. More
PHILIPPINE BASKETRY. An Appreciation
Manila: 1986. x, 220 pages, 84 color, 152 duotone, and 111 b/w photographs, 14 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. The rich and multi-varied traditions of basket weaving in the Philippine archipelago are examined in this volume. Basketry styles of the different islands are discussed and analyzed and are accompanied by..... More
KACHINA. Poupee Rituelles des Indiens Hopi et Zuni
Musees de Marseille: 1994. 168 pages, 19 full-page and 200 smaller color photographs of kachinas, 9 b/w photographs, 2 maps. Small folio size, 9" x12" In 1994 the Musees de Marseille M.A.O.O. mounted a stunning, precedent setting exhibition of Hopi kachinas. Drawn from European (German, Austrian, Swiss, Belgian, Danish, Norwegian..... More
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF ART IN NORTHERN NEW IRELAND
Field Museum, Fieldiana, Anthropology, Vol. 58: 1969. 186 pages, 54 illustrations including many full-page photographs of malanggan figures, 3 tables. More