INVESTIGATIONS IN SOUTHWEST YUKON. Numbers 1 and 2
Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, Papers, Vol. 6. Andover: 1964. 488 pages, 94 figures, 1 fold-out map. More
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NATURFOLKENS RELIGION
Natur och Kultur, Stockholm: 1926. 168 pages, 18 photographs and drawings of rituals, shamans, and shamanic tools of tri bal peoples around th eworld and far northern European peoples. Cloth cover. More
CRAFT TREASURES OF OKINAWA
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
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FETICHES A CLOUS DU BAS-ZAIRE
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. 244 pages, 210 b/w and 60 color photographs, 5 maps. More
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