LEARNING NAVAHO. Vol .4
St. Michaels: 1948. 296 pages. More
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FROM NUDITY TO RAINMENT. An Introduction to the Study of Costume
New York: 1930 (1st U.S. edition). viii, 303 pages, 11 full-page color photographs, 12 full-page b/w photographs, 141 smaller b/w photographs and drawings, 1 map. This very extensive study deals with the clothing, decoration and masks of indigenous peoples of Africa, the Pacific, North and South America and pre-historic peoples..... More
SAMOAN ISLANDS BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wichita: 1984. v, 329 pages, arranged by forty-four subject areas. Cloth cover. More
ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES AMONG THE ANCIENT CITIES OF MEXICO.
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
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
MELANESIANS OF THE SOUTH-EAST SOLOMON ISLANDS.
London: 1927. xx, 529 pages of text containing 28 figures and 2 maps, plus 14 leaves of photographs. Cloth cover. More
ANTIQUEDADES DE ARAUCANIA
Revista Universitaria de la Universidad Catolica de Chile, No. 9, Ano XV: 1930. Offprint. 67 pages, 44 photographs and drawings of artifacts. More
MOEURS ET COUTUMES DES BANTOUS. La Vie d'une Tribus Sud-Africaine. (2 volumes).
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
THE NAVAJO BLANKET
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
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
MAORI. A Photographic and Social History
Wellington: 1983. 287 pages, 425 photographs, 2 maps. More
CARVED AND PAINTED DESIGNS FROM NEW GUINEA; Field Museum, Anthropology Design Series No. 5.
Chicago: 1931. 58 pages, 44 pages of photographs of hundreds of carved artifacts, 8 pages of rubbings of the designs on bark belts. More
LES SANZA DU CONGO
Koninklijk Museum Voor Midden Afrika, Neiuwerke Reeks, No. 3, Tervuren: 1962. Two volumes. Vol. 1: 248 pages, 14 photographs, 57 drawings, 427 graphs. Vol. 2: 96 pages, 467 photographs, 4 maps. The "sanza", the musical instrument with intricately carved designs and patterns that has been described as, "...neither percussion nor..... More
LES TAMBOURS A FENTE DE L'AFRIQUE CENTRALE
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
ETUDES KOTOKO
Paris: 1976. 105 pages, 8 pages of photographs, 31 figures. More
ZAPOTECAN ANTIQUITIES. And the Paulson Collection in the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden
Ethnographical Museum of Sweden, New Series, Publication No. 4, 1938. 196 pages, 32 pages of photographs of funerary urns, 19 additional photographs, 4 drawings, 3 maps. More
VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE. Execute par ordre de Sa Majeste L'Empereur Nicolas Ier, Sur la Corvette Le Seniavine, dans les annees 1826,1827, 1828 et 1829
Paris, 1835 & 1836; Amsterdam and New York: 1971 (reprint). (three volumes of text and an elephant folio atlas volume) Vol. I: xxiv, 410 pages, 1 fold-out map, 1 fold-out chart. Vol. II: ii, 387 pages, 1 drawing, 1 fold-out map. Vol. III: xiv, 352 pages, 1 fold-out chart. Atlas..... More
BAESLER-ARCHIV, Band XV
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
THE PUEBLO CHILDREN OF THE EARTH MOTHER
New York: 1983. Two volumes. Volume I: The Heritage, Culture, Crafts, and Traditions of the Anasazi Ancestors of the Pueblo Indians. xxi, 522 pages; 19 color plates and over 500 individual drawings. Volume II: The Culture, Crafts and Ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Yesterday and Today. x, 534 pages;..... More
A WORLD OF FACES. Masks of the Northwest Coast Indians
Forest Grove: 1978. 160 pages, 54 b/w and 8 color photographs--all full-page., 7 line-drawings. Cloth cover, mint condiiton. More
THE SU SITE, EXCAVATIONS AT A MOGOLLON VILLAGE, WESTERN NEW MEXICO
Field Museum, Anthropology Series, Vol. 32, No. 2: Second Season, 1941. Pp. 98-271, 49 photographs and drawings, 12 maps. From the library of famed anthropologis/archaeologist Donald Collier, and signed by him. More
THE NIGHT CHANT, A NAVAHO CEREMONY
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
LA CONSTRUCTION COLLECTIVE DE LA MAISON EN KABYLIE
Institut d'Ethnologie, Travaux et Memoires, III. Paris: 1926. 88 pages of text containing 7 figures, plus 3 pages of photographs. Cloth cover. More
THE ART OF TAANIKO WEAVING
Wellington: 1968. A Study of Its Cultural Context, Technique, Style, and Development. 95 pages, 34 photographs, 136 drawings--all dealing with Maori costume. Some underlining. Hard board cover. More