ORISSA: KUNST UND KULTUR IN NORDOST-INDIEN
Zurich: Museum Reitberg, 1980. 360 pages, 703 b/w and 53 color photographs, 44 drawings. More
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BATAKLANDEN (Deel VIII) plus MALEISCHE LAND EN TER SUMATRA’S NOORDOOSTKUST (Sumatra II).
RIJKS ETHNOGRAPHISCH MUSEUM, (Deel VIII) and (Sumatra II): 1914. 208 pages of text containing 31 drawings and photographs plus 1 page of color photographs and 11 pages of b/w photographs of 40 objects--carved staffs, weapons, jewelry, basketry, masks, textiles, and carved figures. Near mint condition. More
SELECT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TROPICAL AFRICA.
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
EXOTISCHE KUNST IM RAUTENSTRAUCH-JOEST-MUSEUM.
Koln: 1971. 426 pages, 10 color and 173 b/w photographs of primitive art masterpieces in the museum's collections. More
CHALCACINGO
Graz: 1971. 148 pages, 47 figures containing 800-900 drawings, 24 full-page photographs. Linen cover. The archaeological site at Chalcacingo, one of the great monuments of Olmec civilization, is unique for the quality and nature of what was painted and carved on the side of a mountain. This out of print... More
ART OF NEW GUINEA. Sepik, Maprik and Highlands
Los Angeles: Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology, UCLA, 1967. 75 pages, 134 photographs. More
TRADERS TO THE NAVAJOS. The Story of the Wetherills of Kayenta
Boston & New York: 1934. 265 pages, 9 pages of photographs. Cloth cover. More
SENUFO SCULPTURE FROM WEST AFRICA
New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1964. 126 pages, 186 photographs. Hard board cover, with dust jacket. Fine condition. In 1964, the Museum of Primitive Art presented an exhibition of Senufo art--the first ever mounted in the United States. Many of the objects in the exhibition had never before been... More
TRADITIONAL ART OF THE AFRICAN NATIONS
New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1961. 64 pages, 77 photographs. Cloth cover. More
TRIBAL ARMS MONOGRAPHS, Vol. 1, No. 2
Brussels: 1997. 70 pages (text in French, English, German, and Flemish), photographs of 130 weapons, drawings of 59 weapons, 23 archival photographs, 1 map. Fine condition. More
MAYA SCULPTURE FROM THE SOUTHERN LOWLANDS, HIGHLANDS AND PACIFIC PIEDMONT
Berkeley: 1972. 432 pages, 201 full-page photographs. Cloth cover. More
KACHINA, Kachina-Figuren der Pueblo-Indianer Nordamerikas aus der Studiensammlung Horst Antes
Karlsruhe: 1980. 180 pages, 412 Kachinas photograhed in color and in b/w, 31 photographs (many full-page) of dances and dancers, 18 photographs of earlier European Kachina exhibitions, several pages old drawings and photographs of other Hopi art objects. Superlatives hardly seem adequate in describing this truly wonderful catalogue. Horst Antes... More
HAU, KOLA!, The Plains Indian Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Providence: 1980. 256 pages, 355 photographs and drawings, including 16 pages of color photographs. About half of the Museum's Plains holdings (mostly late 19th--early 20th century) are illustrated and described in this catalogue of one of the most important Plains Indian collections extant. Fine illustrations, good essays on Plains art... More
SOURCE BOOK FOR AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY
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 work in English..." More
REFLECTIONS OF THE WEAVER'S WORLD. The Gloria F. Ross Collection of Contemporary Navajo Weaving
Denver: 1992. 112 pages, 89 color photographs (including 2 fold-out), 1 map. The Denver Art Museum's permanent collection of contemporary Navajo weaving, consisting of thirty-eight rugs and tapestries woven during the 1980s and early 1990s is catalogued in this volume. The collection attempts to exemplify the best weaving in progress... More
THE PAPUAS OF WAROPEN
Koninklijk Institut, The Hague: 1957. xv, 384 pages, 77 photographs, 32 drawings, 2 fold-out maps. Cloth cover. Initially published in Dutch in 1947, this English translation of a work that was the result of long field-work by an expert observer was greeted with great pleasure by those scholars unable to... More
ESKIMO ARTISTS. Fieldwork in Alaska, June 1936 until April, 1937
Stuttgart, 1938: Kassel, 1953 (enlarged ed.); Zurich, 1987. 83 pages, 86 photographs, 17 drawings, 1 map. Hard board cover. In 1936 ethnographer Hans Himmelbeber went to Alaska to do fieldwork among the Eskimos of the Kuskowim river and among the Nunivak, in each case studying a culture that was shortly... More
PEARLS AND SAVAGES. Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea--in New Guinea
New York & London: 1924. xiii, 414 pages, 80 photographs--almost all full-page-of the people, customs, rituals, and artifacts of western New Guinea. Cloth cover. More
NEGRO ART IN BELGIAN CONGO.
New York: 1948,1949, 2nd edition. 81 pages, 46 photographs--many full-page, 1 map. More
LES TAMBOURS A FENTE DE L'AFRIQUE CENTRALE. Vol. I
Tervuren: Museum for Central Africa, 1968. 58 pages, 313 photographs of slit drums, 3 maps. Small folio size, 10 1/2"x12" New and unopened copy. More
STATUAIRE De STANLEY-POOL
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
DOGON STATUARY
Strasbourg: 1994. 608 pages, 143 full-page color photographs, 13 b/w photographs, 2 double-page maps. Cloth cover with dust jacket. (small folio size 9"x 13") Fine-mint condition. This monumental work, a comprehensive examination published of carved Dogon figures, is a joy to the eye, the mind--and the spirit. The leading authority... More
NEW GUINEA MASKS (1) USE OF TOBACCO IN NEW GUINEA AND NEIGHBORING REGIONS (2) USE OF SAGO IN NEW GUINEA (3); Field Museum, Department of Anthropology, Leaflets 4, 17, and 6;
1922,1924,1923. (1) 21 pages of drawings, 6 full-page photographs. (2) 11 pages, 2 pages of photographs, 1 draqwing. (3) 12 pages, 2 pages of photographs, 1 page of drawings. All three papers have been bound into one volume in a later cloth cover. Fine condition. More
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF ART IN NORTHERN NEW IRELAND
Field Museum, Fieldiana, Anthropology, Vol. 58: 1969. 186 pages, 54 illustrations including many full-page photographs of malanggan figures, 3 tables. More
THE TANALA, A Hill Tribe of Madagascar
Field Museum Anthropological Series, Vol. XXII, 1933: 1962, 2nd printing. 334 pages, 35 pages of figures, illustrating 258 objects of material culture. The Tanala, occupants of a wooded and mountainous region in the southern third of the eastern part of Madagascar, had, at the time of this more than sixty... More