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
Brussels: Studio 44, 1973. 181 pages (text in French and English), 11 full--page and half-page b/w photographs, 8 quarter-page b/w photographs, 12 full-page color photographs, 3 maps. More
Santa Fe: 1985. x, 139 pages, 24 pages of color photographs and 65 b/w photographs, 17 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
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
ROBERT S. PEABODY FOUNDATION FOR ARCHAEOLOGY, Vol. 5. Andover: 1958. xx, 360 pages, 72 pages of illustrations. More
Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin: 1982. 188 pages of text, plus 636 b/w and 8 color photographs of the collection, 3 maps. Hard board cover. The ghost-like, stone iniet figures found in New Britain are seldom discussed or illustrated in studies of Melanesian art, and are almost never exhibited. The largest... More
xix, 430 pages, 97 figures--many of artifacts, 2 color plates, 69 maps. Small folio size (9 1/2"x13"), wrappers chipped and slightly soiled, hinges and spine reinforced, pages in fine condition, but with some pencilled notes in margins--written by former owner, a renowned Africanist whose bookplate is on inside front wrapper. More
Studia Ethnographica Up-saliensia, VIII: 1957. 172 pages (many uncut), 38 pages of drawings of objects and 2 full-page photographs of objects. Edition limited to 500 copies. Mint condition. Volume II examines the family, law and social organization. More
Chicago: Field Museum, 1925. 2 pages of text, 38 full pages of superb photographs of Chinese baskets. Perhaps the first publication to study Chinese baskets, this Field Museum volume may still be the only--certainly it's the definitive publication--study ever to be published on this topic. Thirty-eight 12" x 9" photographs... More
Chicago: 1931. 58 pages, 44 pages of photographs of hundreds of carved artifacts, 8 pages of rubbings of the designs on bark belts. More
Paris and New York: 1950. 150 pages, 136 b/w and 6 color photographs. Cloth cover. More
Arnouville: 1989. Two volumes. 679 pages, 16 color and 762 b/w photographs, 44 drawings, 16 maps. Cloth covers, in a cloth slipcase, mint condition. This comprehensive two volume work addresses the style centers of Kongo art and the considerable confusion and imprecision regarding the identification of sculptural pieces from the... More
Paris: 1974. 188 pages, 105 photographs, 12 drawings, 7 maps. Mint condition. An illuminating study (in French) of the art styles and technology of the peoples, primarily Teke and Bembe, who live in the area around Stanley Pool in the lower Zaire River Basin. Particular reference is given to their... More
New York: 1972. 228 pp., 124 b/w and 39 color photographs--almost all full-page. Cloth cover. More
PEABODY MUSEUM, Memoirs. Vol. IX, No. 2, 1944. xi, 113 pages, 14 pages of photographs, 31 figures. This folio-size "Peabody Memoir" contains an abundance of riches of Mesoamerican Mayan archaeological scholarship. This volume contains much previously unpublished material and is profusely illustrated with photographs of scores of seldom seen objects... More
New York: 1957. 287 pages, 113 pages of color and 53 pages of b/w photographs, 5 drawings, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More
Eisenach und Kassel: 1958. 236 pages, 73 full-page b/w and 4 full-page color photographs of masks, 1 map. Cloth cover. The spectacular masks of Ceylon--used for a variety of rituals and purposes including demon exorcising, illness curing, ritual dances, and theatrical uses--are studied in this comprehensive volume by a noted... More
Tulsa: 1972, 1991. xvii, 618 pages, approximately 1000 drawings, plus 32 unnumbered pages of color plates. Cloth cover. Small folio size (9"x12"). This immensely popular work, reprinted in 1991 after being out of print for more than a decade and commanding astronomic prices in the out of print market, describes... More
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, 1999. 153 pages, 70 color photographs, 64 small b/w photographs, 7 b/w photographs of the exhibition, 1 map. Very good-fine condition, small-folio size (9"x12"). More
New York: 1927. xi, 351 pages, 8 pages of photographs, 7 drawings, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. More
Edinburgh: 1920. xix, 398 pages, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 32, No. 1: 1932; 1995-reprint. xxii, 184 pages of text containing 16 figures, plus 58 pages of photographs. More
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, CONTRIBUTIONS, Vol. XI, 1929. 140 pages of text containing 136 b/w photographs and drawings, plus 31 leaves of color and b/w photographs. Decorating many of the most prized examples of the art of the Native American, beads and beadwork have attained almost mystical status reflecting... More
Madrid: 1954. Both volumes are covered in linen, and measure 9 1/2" x 12 1/2". Volume I: Texto. xvi, 367 pages, 201 photographs and drawings, 20 full-page color photographs. Volume II: Laminas. 20 pages of text plus 300 pages of photographs. From the library of noted archaeologist, Donald Collier, and signed by him. More
Madrid: 1958. Both volumes are covered in linen, and measure 9 1/2" x 12 1/2". Volume I: Texto. xv, 385 pages, 147 drawings and photographs, 10 full-page color photographs, 1 map. Volume II: Laminas. 21 pages of text plus 287 pages of photographs. From the library of noted archaeologist, Donald Collier, and signed by him. More