LEARNING NAVAHO. Vol. 3
St. Michaels: 1947. 166 pages. More
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ETHNOGRAPHISCHE ZEICHNUNGEN DER LWIMBI/NGANGELA (ZENTRAL-ANGOLA)
Weisbaden: 1988. 138 pages, 172 drawings of several hundred objects of material culture, 2 b/w photographs, 4 pages of color drawings, 2 maps. More
CERTAIN ARTIFACTS FROM SAN MIGUEL ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, Indian Notes and Monographs, .Vol. VII, No.4, 1921. 211 pages of text containing 33 photographs and drawings of artifacts, plus 122 pages of b/w and color photographs of hundreds of artifacts, and 2 maps of the islands of the Santa Barbara coast that were occupied..... More
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
SEPIK DIARY
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
INDIAN BLANKETS AND THEIR MAKERS
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
TEXTILES AND ORNAMENTS OF INDIA
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956. 95 pages, 92 b/w and 14 color photographs. Decorated hard board cover. More
JEWELRY OF THE PREHISTORIC SOUTHWEST
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
COURT ARTS OF INDONESIA
New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1990. 288 pages, 157 color photographs--many full-page and double-page, 71 b/w photographs, 5 drawings--all photographs and drawings of the arts of the royal court, dating back to the 8th and 9th centuries, and including jewelry, masks, sculptures, sacred weapons, carvings, musical instrucments, royal textiles, manuscripts..... More
LA MORT ET LA TOMBE, L'abandon de la Tombe. Les Ceremonies, Prieres et Sacrifices se Rapportant a Ces Tres Importantes Manifestations de la Vie des Autochtones du Darlac
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
THE ART OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
Washington D.C. 1979. 365 pages, 405 b/w 13 color photographs. Later cloth cover. 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 never before..... More
THE FABULOUS FRONTIER. Twelve New Mexico Items
Santa Fe: Rydal Press, 1945. xiii, 317 pages of text plus 11 unnumbered leaves of photograph, maps on endpapers. Cloth cover. Edition limited to 500 copies. Howes K37. More
THE ART OF THE ANCIENT MAYA
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1959. 124 pages, 95 b/w photographs--all large, may full-page and 4 full-page color photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
WESTAFRIKANISCHE PLASTIK, Complete set (3 volumes)
Museum fur Volker-kunde, Berlin. The West African collections of the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Berlin are among the oldest and finest in the world, and are particularly strong in materials from the former German Cameroons and Togo, as well as Nigeria. These wonderful, out of print catalogues illustrate and describe..... More
THE KONGO II
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
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
ARTS DE L'OCEANIE
Paris: 1947. 150 pages, 136 b/w and 6 color pho-tographs. Linen board cover. 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
TREASURES OF ANCIENT AMERICA. Mexico to Peru.
Geneva: 1964. xiv, 229 pages, 60 b/w and 85 color photographs--mainly full-page, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
SYMBOLISM OF THE HUICHOL INDIANS.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORy, Memoirs, Vol. III-1: 1900. 228 pages of text containing 291 drawings of Huichol artifacts, plus 3 pages of color illustrations, 1 page of b/w illustrations, 1 page of photographs, 2 maps. Original wrappers. Folio size (11"x14"). When this work was published, in the first year..... More
ARQUITECTURA PREHISPANICA
Memorias del Instituto Nacional de Anropologia e Historia, I. Mexico City: 1951. xix, 970 pages, 476 photographs, 291 drawings, 33 figures, maps on endpapers. Cloth cover. Inscribed by author. More
ALFRED I. BARTON COLLECTION OF SOUTHWESTERN TEXTILES
San Vicente Foundation, Santa Fe: 1949 (2nd printing). 99 pages, 165 photographs, 3 full-page color drawings. Hard board cover. Fine cndition. More
INDIAN CRAFTS OF GUATEMALA AND EL SALVADOR
Norman: 1965. 416 pages, 140 b/w and 48 color illustrations. Cloth cover, new and unopend copy in dust jacket. This indispensable, heavily illustrated volume is the best general survey in English, and it provides a village by village account of the arts and crafts of these two countries. Though the..... More
NAVAJO SANDPAINTING. From Religious Act to Commercial Art
Tucson: 1983. 273 pages, 61 b/w and 9 color photographs, 5 charts, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
SOUTHWEST NATIVE AMERICAN ARTS AND MATERIAL CULTURE. A Guide to Research
New York: 1991. (two volumes). Vol. I: xviii, 790 pages. Vol. II: xviii, Pp 791-1506. Cloth covers. The finest and most comprehensive bibliography published to date on this topic, this essential two-volume set (only 350 were printed) contains 8363 annotated entries. The two indices--by culture and by subject--make this the..... More