Washington, D.C., 1979. 243 pages, 23 full-page color and 161 b/w photographs. The role of textiles in the social customs and religions of Indonesia is fully explored in this superb catalogue published for a 1979 exhibition at the Textile Museum. Covering the textiles of fourteen distinct geographic areas, the text..... 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
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
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
Field Museum, Anthropological Series, Vol. XXI, No. 1: 1931. 85 pages of text (some uncut), plus 8 leaves of photographs. Fine-mint condition. More
New York: 1968 (translated from 1967 German edition). 288 pages, 56 pages of color photographs, 98 pages of b/w photographs, 10 pages of drawings. Cloth cover. (10"x12"). More
London: 1983. xi, 232 pages, 25 illustrations. 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. More
Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, Papers, Vol. 6. Andover: 1964. 488 pages, 94 figures, 1 fold-out map. More
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
Los Angeles/New York: 1972. 112 pages, 81 b/w and 17 color photographs. Soft 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
Den Haag: n.d--probably 1955 or 1956. 126 pages of text containing 7 drawings and 5 maps, plus 16 pages of photographs. Hard board cover. More
Basel: 1972. 265 pages of text (including a 4 page English summary) containing numerous drawings, 13 diagrams, 3 maps; plus 68 unnumbered pages of photographs of masks, pottery ceremonies, and individuals. More
Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 1978. 294 pages, 164 pages (folio-size 14 1/2" x 10 1/4") of color photographs and 32 pages of b/w photographs. Cloth cover. New and unopened copy in a slipcase. The 1974 exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto was the first..... More
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
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
New York, 1943: Princeton, 1969 (New Edition). In a 12 1/2" x 17 1/2" linen folio there is a text (12 1/2" x 17 1/2"), of x, 55 pages that explains the ritual and its symbolism, and 18 loose color plates (12 1/2" x 17 1/2") of the sandpaintings that..... 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
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
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 York: 1906. xxii, 564 pages, 1 map in text and 1 fold-out color map. Cloth cover. More
Geneva: 1964. xiv, 229 pages, 60 b/w and 85 color photographs--mainly full-page, 1 map. Cloth cover. 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
Forest Grove: 1978. 160 pages, 54 b/w and 8 color photographs--all full-page., 7 line-drawings. Cloth cover, mint condiiton. More