Smithsonian National Museum, Washington, D.C, 1988. 360 pages (thirty-six papers) 476 color and b/w photographs and drawings of several thousand artifacts, 17 maps. Cloth cover. Slight rippling at bottom of some pages, otherwise very good-fine condition. An historic collaboration between American and Soviet scholars resulted in a superb 1988 exhibition... More about CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS. Cultures of Siberia and Alaska
New York: International African Institute, 1956. 483 pages. It would appear that this printing was limited to no more than a few hundred copies. More about SELECT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TROPICAL AFRICA
London: 1938. xii, 578 pages, 2 full-page photographs, 8 full-page maps. Cloth cover. More about THE NATIVE RACES OF AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR
Koln: 1971. 426 pages, 10 color and 173 b/w photographs of primitive art masterpieces in the museum's collections. More about EXOTISCHE KUNST IM RAUTENSTRAUCH-JOEST-MUSEUM
London: 1979. 216 pages, 215 b/w and 24 color photographs. Cloth cover. Written by a collector, for collectors, this volume surveys the art of over 150 tribes, including those lesser known tribes in eatern and southern Africa. There are chapters on "The Artist, His Materials and Techniques" and "The Science... More about COLLECTING AFRICAN ART
New York: 1978. xvii, 350 pages, 22 papers presented in 1975 at the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects, 122 photographs, 49 figures. Cloth cover. More about ART IN SOCIETY. Studies in Style, Culture and Aesthetics
St. Michaels, Arizona: St. Michaels Press, 1950. xviii, 373 pp., two 3-page pullout color plates. Parezo, 3053. Mint condition. More about LEGEND OF THE GHOSTWAY RITUAL IN THE MALE BRANCH OF SHOOTING WAY, Part 1. SUCKINGWAY, ITS LEGEND...
St. Michaels: 1947. 166 pages. More about LEARNING NAVAHO. Vol. 3
Ulan-Batar: n.d. (ca.1990). The title and brief text are in Mongolian, English, and Chinese. 114 pages, 100 full-page drawings of members of different Mongolian ethnic groups in their traditional costume. Mint conditon. More about NATIONAL COSTUMES OF THE MONGOLIA
Honolulu: 1990. viii, 315 pages, 20 color and 263 b/w photographs, 12 drawings, 3 figures, 12 maps. Cloth cover. Of the more than forty papers presented in 1984 at the Third International Symposium on the Art of Oceania, sponsored by the Pacific Arts Association, nineteen went through the process of... More about ART AND IDENTITY IN OCEANIA
Arnouville: 1986. 374 pages, 35 color and 371 b/w photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. The classic, royal art of the tribes of Cameroon is extensively discussed (in the French text) and illustrated in the volume that concentrates solely on objects made for royal lineage rituals and ceremonies The royal arts... More about ARTS ANCIENS DU CAMEROUN
Austin: 1998. xiv, 245 pages, 46 photographs, 5 drawings, 3 maps. Cloth cover. More about WEAVING IDENTITIES. Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town
(exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1998). 191 pages, 100 color and 100 b/w photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. Seven essays and two hundred photographs are to be found in this catalogue of the finest assemblage of Chokwe art to be exhibited in the U.S. Drawing from private and museum... More about CHOKWE!. Art and Initiation among Chokwe and Related Peoples
Paris: 1936. Tome I: "Vie Sociale". 513 pages (some uncut), 16 photographs, 10 drawings. Tome II: "Vie Mentale". 580 pages, 24 photographs, 14 drawings. More about MOEURS ET COUTUMES DES BANTOUS. La Vie d'une Tribus Sud-Africaine. (2 volumes
Honolulu: 1978. 308 pages, 401 b/w and 225 color photographs. In 1978 the Bishop Museum commemorated Captain Cook's discovery of the Hawaiian Islands with "an exposition of native manufactures" collected on Cook's Pacific voyages. This publication presents the objects collected by Cook that were exhibited at the Museum. A truly... More about ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES. Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific...
Los Angeles/New York: 1972. 112 pages, 81 b/w and 17 color photographs. Cloth cover. An exhibition catalogue for a show that traveled to six museums, this was the first major book on Navajo weaving to have been published in decades. The photographs are large and particularly good, as is the... More about THE NAVAJO BLANKET
Sprigfield: 1941. xv, 227 pages, 241 photographs. Cloth cover. More about RARE HOOKED RUGS. And Others Both Antique and Modern From Cooperative Sources
Peabody Foundation for Archaeology No. 6, New Haven; New York 1932; 1979 (reprint). xvi, 314 pages, 248 figures. Cloth cover. Papers of the Southwestern Expedition. This close, detailed study of the materials found in the important pueblo of Pecos in New Mexico, during excavations between 1915 and 1925, is one... More about THE ARTIFACTS OF PECOS
Berlin: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1965. 216 pages, 72 photographs and 130 figures--illustrating hundreds of objects. More about MATERIELLE KULTUR DER GILBERT-INSELIN
Norman: 1982. 175 pages, 86 b/w photographs, 16 pages of color photographs. Cloth cover. More about THE POTTERY OF ACATLAN, A Changing Mexican Tradition
Paris: Musee du Quai Bramly, 2011. 416 pages, approximately 170 full-page and double-page color photographs, 25 half-page and quartyer-page color and b/w photographs, 187 smaller color photographs, 2 maps. 9 1/2"x12 1/2". Fine condition. More about DOGON
Bremen: Ubersee Museum, 1980. Approximately 200 pages, 64 pages of large b/w photographs, 8 pages of large color photographs, 183 smaller b/w photographs, 12 maps. Biebuyck, 659. "Important catalogue...arranges thte sculpture into eight geographic regions..." More about KUNST AUS ZAIRE. MASKEN UND PLASTIKEN AUS DER NATIONAL SAMMLUNG INSTITUT DES MUSEES NATION AUX DU...
Chicago: 1980. 72 pages, 53 color photographs, 55 b/w photographs and drawings. This catalogue accompanied a major exhibition at the Field Museum, and surveyed the full range of tapa design in large, exquisite color photographs, as well as black and white photographs and drawings. The diverse use of tapa and... More about PATTERNS OF PARADISE
Pittsburg: 1994. 63 pages, 43 pages of color photographs, 10 b/w photographs. Inscribed by author. Plateau bags, often called cornhusk or Nez Perce bags, are among the loveliest of Native American artifacts, and yet are among the least documented. This catalogue of an exhibition at Johnson County Community College presents... More about THE PLATEAU BAG. A Tradition in Native American Weaving
Salt Lake City: 1995 (reprint). Cloth cover (7"x10"). xlviii, 335 pages of text contaiing 19 figures, plus 5 pages of color plates and 3 pages of b/w plates. More about THE NIGHT CHANT, A NAVAHO CEREMONY