CONTRIBUTION A L'ETHNOGRAPHIE DES GBAYA.
Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia, XXIX. 1968. 124 pages, 2 color photographs. More
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THE NATIVE RACES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: BRITISH NORTH AMEIRCA I. The Far West. The Home of the Salish and Dene.
London: 1907. xiv, 263 pages of text, plus 32 full-page photographs--principally of artifacts--and 1 map. Gilt decorated cloth cover. Very good condition. 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
TEXTILES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography
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THE NAVAJO BLANKET
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TLEJI OR YEHBECHAI MYTH
Santa Fe: House of Navajo Religion, 1938, (1st edition, 1st printing). 13 pages. Very good condition. More
DE KUNST VAN NIEUW-GUINEA
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COCLE, AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF CENTRAL PANAMA. Part I, Historical Background, Excavations at the Sitio Conte, Artifacts, and Ornaments.; Peabody Museum Memoirs, Vol. VII, 1937
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THE SU SITE, EXCAVATIONS AT A MOGOLLON VILLAGE, WESTERN NEW MEXICO
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SPIRITS EMPODIED: ART OF THE CONGO. Selections from the Helmut F. Stern Collection
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ART OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA: THE FANG TRIBES.
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Bordeaux: Musee d'Aquitaine, 1997. 237 pages,250 color and b/w photographs and drawings of many hundreds of artifacts, 5 maps. Cloth cover with dust jacket. fine condition. More
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