PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE SOUTHWEST, Adam Clark Vroman, 1856-1916
Ward Ritchie Press, 1961. 127 pages, 91 full-page photographs, 12 smaller photographs. Cloth cover, mint condition. More
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THE MYSTIC WARRIOR OF THE PLAINS
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
DAS GESCHLECHTSLEBEN DER WILDEN IN NORDWEST-MELANESIEN. Liebe/ehe und Familienleben bei Deneingeborenender Trobriand-Inseln/Britisch-Neu-Guinea
Leipzig & Zurich: 1931 (?). xix, 442 pages of text containing 4 figures and 1 map, plus 47 unnumbered pages of photographs. Cloth cover. More
SHOOWA DESIGN. African Textiles From the Kingdom of Kuba
London and New York: 1986 (first edition). 205 pages, 100 pages of color and 14 pages of b/w photographs, more than 1,000 drawings, 3 maps. Cloth cover. Quite probably the largest study published on Kuba cloth, this strikingly handsome volume is a welcome respone to the recent great interest in..... More
A VIEW OF SIERRA LEONE
New York: 1927. xi, 351 pages, 8 pages of photographs, 7 drawings, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. More
PARACAS ART AND ARCHITECTURE. Object and Context in South Coastal Peru
Iowa City: 1991. 445 pages, 247 figures. Cloth cover. The first interdisciplinary collection of current research results on the 900-year-long Paracas textile tradition of Peru's south coast. This volume contains eight essays by eminent scholars. Examining the iconography, imagery, and fiber content of the textiles, the eight papers bring new..... More
AN ALBUM OF MAYA ARCHITECTURE
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION, Publication 558: 1946. 140 pages, 87 illustrations, 1 map. Cloth and 3/4 hard board cover, folio size (15 1/2"x 12"). More
NAVAJO SHEPHERD AND WEAVER
1st ed., 2nd printing. xviii, 222 pages, 15 pages of photographs, 35 figures. Woven linen cover. More
NOTES ON THE ETHNOLOGY OF TIBET. Based on the Collections in the United States National Museum. also PRIMITIVE AMERICAN ARMOR. W. Hough.; SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ANNUAL REPORT. for the year to June 30, 1893
NOTES ON THE ETHNOLOGY OF TIBET Pages 665-747 plus 52 pages of photographs of objects in the collection. also PRIMITIVE AMERICAN ARMOR. W. Hough. Pages 627-651 plus 22 pages of photographs and drawings of the armor of indigenous American peoples. xxi, 794 pages. Later cloth cover, fine condition. More
SKYSTONE AND SILVER, The Collector's Book of Southwest Indian Jewelry
Englewood Cliffs: 1976. 258 pages. 82 pages of color photographs of hundreds of pieces of jewelry, 60 b/w photographs--many full-page. The development of the forms, skills, methods, and materials used in the creation of American Indian jewelry and the fine "art" of collecting this jewelry--with the emphasis on the latter--are..... More
AFRICAN SCULPTURE--THE STANLEY COLLECTION
University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1979. 208 pages, 211 photographs. More
ARTS OF WEST AFRICA. (Excluding Music)
International Institute of African Languages and Cultures: 1935. xi, 101 pages of text, plus 32 full-page photographs of artifacts. Cloth and hard board cover. More
THE WOOD-CARVER’S ART IN ANCIENT MEXICO.
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN, CONTRIBUTIONS, Vol. IX, 1925. xvii, 121 pages of text containing 19 figures, plus 52 leaves of photographs and drawings of artifacts. Later cloth cover, marbled endpapers. This appears to be an unopened copy. More
SCHAMANEN AUF DEM DACH DER WELT. Trance, Heilung und Initiation in Kleintibet
Graz: 1994. 236 pages, 32 pages of color and 24 pages of b/w photographs--principally of shamans, rituals, and the traditional regalia, masks, and other artifacts used in those rites by shamans in Ladakh. Cloth cover. More
A FOREST OF KINGS. The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya.
New York: 1990. 542 pages of text containing 223 figures, plus 16 pages of color photographs. Cloth and hardboard cover. More
HISTORIC AYMARA TEXTILES
Krefeld: 1991. 133 pages, 56 full-page and 6 smaller color photographs, 4 b/w photographs, 1 map. In 1991, the German Textile Museum in Krefeld presented the first exhibition in Europe of 15th-19th Century Aymara textiles. The textiles, superb examples from the author's collection of these Bolivian weavings, are wonderfully illustrated..... More
A STUDY OF MAYA ART. Its Subject Matter and Historical Development.
PEABODY MUSEUM, Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1913. New York: 1970 (reprint). 285 pages of text containing 286 figues, plus 29 pages of photographs, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. More
ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES FROM THE CONGO FREE STATE. AN AFRICAN MISCELLANY
Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences. Vol. XIII, 1909. pages 96-222 (some pages uncut) containing 72 drawings and 3 pages of small drawings, plus 13 leaves of photographs. More than 90 years ago, Fredrick Starr authored this monograph that deals with the ethnography of peoples in the area of..... More
MELANESIEN. Schwarze Inseln der Sudsee. Eine Ausstellung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums fur Volkerkunde der Stadt Koln
Kunsthalle Koln: 1971. 223 pages, 451 b/w photographs, 12 full-page color photographs, 3 maps. Cloth cover. Mint condition. More
A GLOSSARY OF THE CONSTRUCTION, DECORATION AND USE OF ARMS AND ARMOR IN ALL COUNTRIES AND IN ALL TIMES.Together with Some Closely Related Subjects.
New York: 1934, 1961. 694 pages, 875 photographs and drawings of several thousand weapons and armor. Cloth cover, small folio size (8 1/2" x11 1/2"). More
INVENTING MASKS. Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende
Chicago: 1998. xxvii, 348 pages, 11 color and 109 duotone photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. The masquerading traditions of the Central Pende are reconstructed in a series of case histories showing how Pende masquerades are created, altered, and abandoned. The history of Pende masks and masquerades is extensively traced, and..... More
L'ART DE L'OCEANIE
Paris: 1954. 128 pages, 96 full-page photographs of objects, principally in Swiss and German museums, maps on endpapers. Cloth cover, small folio size (9"x12"). More
LES TRIBUS BA-KUBA. Et les Peuplades Apparentees
Anales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge, Monographies Ethnographiques, Vol. I. Tervuren: 1954. xiii, 64 pages, 1 fold-out map. More
ETHNOGRAPHIE DER BELU IN ZENTRAL-TIMOR; (Volumes I and II, lacking Volume III, the atlas volume)
Leyden: 1952. Vol. I: xi, 688 pages, 18 figures. Vol. II: 236 pages. Bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering. Fine-mint condition. More
MALINOWSKI’S KIRIWINA. Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918
Chicago: 1998. ix, 306 pages, 190 photographs, 4 maps. Cloth cover. The only book-length study devoted to the photographic aspects of the work of the groundbreaking anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume links a series of photo-essays based on Trobriand institutions--and cultural themes. The photographs, all previously unpublished, were taken between..... More
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