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
Taos: 1925. 127 pages, 27 illustrations. More
Berkeley: 1972. 432 pages, 201 full-page photographs. Cloth cover. More
New York: 1984. 184 pages, 15 color and 82 b/w photographs, 44 figures. Cloth cover. More
London: 1926. IX, 134 pages, 41 full-page photographs. Cloth spine, marbled and linen boards. Boards bumped at corners, spine worn, former owner (Library of Congress) paper stamp on front endpaper, pages very good with no foxing. One of the very early classic studies of African art (based on sculptures in..... More
Anthropological Series, Vol. XXVI, Parts I and II. Field Museum: 1937. 953 pages, 111 pages of illustrations, 5 maps. At the time of its publication in 1937, this voluminous two volume work contained "...more information about Africa, and a better bibliography of the literature for that continent than any other..... More
New York: 1941. xxi, 205 pages plus 82 pages of photographs. Cloth cover. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. More
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
Northbridge (Australia): 1984. 174 unnumbered pages, recording the 500 mile 1977 journey of the author ( a celebrated artist) in a dugout canoe. Almost every page is filled with drawings (of artifacts and people) made on the journey and diary entries discussing them. Leather cover, edition limited to 600 numbered..... More
Apapa: Department of Antiquities, 1965. v, 48 pages of text plus 72 leaves of photographs. The sculptural art of the Kalabari people of the eastern Niger Delta appears infrequently in the literature, and seldom--if at all--has it been examined as closely as in this long out of print study. Examining..... More
Lancaster: 1943. xv, 414 pages, 227 photographs, 5 maps. Cloth cover. More
Chicago: A.M. McClurg & Co, 1920, 1st ed.--2nd printing. xvi, 213 pages plus 232 b/w photographs and drawings and 32 full-page color photographs. Original cloth cover. More
Chicago: A.M. McClurg & Co, July, 1937 (new edition). xvi, 213 pages containing 222 b/w photographs and drawings and 32 leaves of full-page color photographs. Cloth cover, scuffed. More
Chicago 1914, 1920: Glorieta, 1970 (reprint). 230 pages, 222 b/w and 32 color photographs. Cloth cover. More
(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
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
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
Museum fur Volkerkunde: Munich, 1976. 279 pages, 144 b/w and 8 full-page color photographs. More
1952, 3rd and revised edition. 83 pages, 48 photographs, 1 map. More
American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin, Vol. XVIII, Part IV, 1907. Pp. 279-454 containing 65 drawings of objects of material culture, followed by 31 leaves of photographs and drawings of rituals and ritual garments and regalia. More
Societe de Oceanistes. Paris: 1972. cxxi, 123 pages. 8 full-page color and 307 b/w photographs, 1 maps. Boards, weapons, wooden figures, innumerable carved, wooden objects, and objects other than wood--all painted by Aboriginal artists are examined in detail in this study of Aboriginal painting styles and iconography. Drawing from museum..... More
Paris: 1949. 110 pages, 64 full-page photographs. Later cloth cover over original wrappers. Fine condition. More
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
London: 1906. xxii, 564 pages, 1 fold-out color map. Later morocco library cover, wear to spine. 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