TO SPEAK WITH CLOTH. Studies in Indonesian Textiles
Fowler Museum, UCLA: 1989. 256 pages, 34 color and 193 b/w photographs, 70 drawings, 29 maps. Cloth cover. More
Fowler Museum, UCLA: 1989. 256 pages, 34 color and 193 b/w photographs, 70 drawings, 29 maps. Cloth cover. More
MEDALLION PAPERS, Nos. XXV, XXVI, XXX, XXXVIII: 1937, 1937, 1942, 1948. Vol. I in later cloth cover, Vol. II in later hard board cover. Privately published for THE MEDALLION at Gila Pueblo in Globe, Arizona, this is part of a distinguished series of reports which provides one of the most..... More
MEDALLION PAPERS, Nos. XXV, XXVI, XXX, XXXVIII: 1937, 1937, 1942, 1948. Two physical volumes: Vol. I and Vols. II-IV. Vol I: Material Culture. xviii, 305 pages of text containing 115 figures, plus 215 pages of photographs. Vol. II: Comparisons and Theories. xiv, 167 pages of text, plus 25 pages of..... More
Austin: 1978. 268 pages, hundreds of photographs and drawings, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More
London: 1983. xi, 232 pages, 25 illustrations. Cloth cover. More
Paris: 1927. 168 pages, 24 full-page photographs.Original wrappers, signed and stamped by William Bascom. More
Museum of the American Indian: 1970. vii, 81 pages of text, plus 5 pages of color photographs and 106 pages of b/w photographs. Cloth cover ed. In the 1960s, five young Hopi artists produced, for the Museum of the American Indian, 270 paintings depicting aspects of Hopi life and rituals..... More
Stuttgart: Linden Museum, 1987. 144 pages, 21 pages of color photographs and drawings and 33 pages of b/w photographs and drawings. More
Austin: 1998. xiv, 245 pages, 46 photographs, 5 drawings, 3 maps. Cloth cover. More
Field Columbian Museum, Anthropological Series, Publication 16. Vol. 1 No. 1, 1895. MONUMENTS OF YUCATAN. 137 pages containing 41 figures and 16 leaves of photos and 2 fold-out maps. Some pages uncut. Vol. 1, No. 2, 1897. MONUMENTS OF CHIAPAS, OAXACA AND THE VALLEY OF MEXICO. 196 pages, 31 full-page..... More
Taipei: National Museum of History, 1995. 16 (unpaginated), 160 pages, large color photographs of 186 articles of clothing. Text in Chinese and English. Cloth cover, with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
Paris: 1990. 239 pages, 195 photographs, 1 map. From 1931 to 1933 Michel Leiris traveled across Africa as the secretary-archivist-photographer on an ethnographic mission led by Marcel Griaule. Leiris' photographs were published in 1934 in a book, L'Afrique Fantome, that was received with great praise and acclaim. In 1988, famed..... More
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
Solothurn: 1981. 180 pages, 49 color and 15 b/w photographs of objects from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the collection of the Musee Barbier-Muller. More
Institut d'Ethnologie, Travaux et Memoires, LII. Paris: 1949. (Travaux et Memoires de L'Institut D'Ethnologie-lii). 257 pages--some uncut, 43 figures--mostly drawings of objects of material culture. More
Neuchatel and London: 1912 (Vol. I) and 1913 (Vol II). Vol. I: "The Social Life". 500 pages, 52 photographs, 1 color map. Vol. II: "The Psychic Life". 574 pages, 60 photographs. Decorated green cloth covers. The anthropologist, E.W. SMITH, called this, "...the finest monograph written on any African tribe" More
ROBERT S. PEABODY FOUNDATION FOR ARCHAEOLOGY, Vol. 5. Andover: 1958. xx, 360 pages, 72 pages of illustrations. More
Middletown: 1992. 179 pages, 134 large color photographs, many full-page or double-page, 5 small b/w photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. Located at the very southern tip of India, the state of Tamilnadu, home of the Tamils, is noted for its high level of perfection in many art forms. Because of..... More
Tervuren: 1968. Volume II only, of 2, 10 1/2" x 12". Vol. 2: 58 pages, 313 photographs of "slit" drums, 3 maps. A major study from the Museum for Central Africa (Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo), this one dealing with the "slit" drums in the Museum's Congolese collections. The..... More
434 pages (text in Chinese, captions in English and Chinese, introduction in English). 461 color photographs, 225 b/w (almost all archival) photographs,1 fold-out color map. Cloth cover, in a slipcase. Taipei, 1998. The first, full-scale study to cover the culture of traditional clothing and ornaments of all the Taiwan aboriginal..... More
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
Berlin, 1931: New York, 1968 (reprint). 183 pages. Cloth cover. Tchokwe masks and art (by H. Baumann, 54 pages, 40 ills.) and North American Indian peyote cults (80 pages, 9 ills.) are the subjects of the two principal papers in this out of print volume. The other papers deal with..... More
Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Memoirs, Vol. 5, 1940: Mansfield Centre & Mill Valley, 2000 (reprint). 284 pages, 125 pages of photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Almost all of the Field Museum's 5,000 unbroken specimens of painted Anasazi pottery were acquired during the..... More
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930. 27 pages of text containing 1 map, plus 24 leaves of photographs. This is the catalogue of the first major U.S. museum exhibition of Peruvian pre-Columbian textiles. 1st edition, 1st printing. More
Santa Fe: 1943, 1975 (reprint). vi, 73 pages, 3 pages of color and 6 pages of b/w photographs, 17 pages of b/w drawings, 1 figure. Linen cover. More