Ann Arbor: 1985. xvi, 288 pages, 15 color and 401 b/w photographs, 16 drawings, 2 maps. A superb catalogue raisonne of more than 400 Tabwa objects in collecitons outside of Africa. It would be difficult to overpraise this superb study of the art of Tabwa of Central Africa. A catalogue... More about TABWA. The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art
Chicago: Art Institute, 1977. 363 pages, 566 b/w and 32 color photographs, 7 maps. One of the most important American Indian art catalogues (with respect to the quality and quantity of objects exhibited) over the past half-century. More about THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930. This is the catalogue of the first major U.S. museum exhibition of Peruvian pre-Columbian textiles. Bound in later cloth cover (worn) with a chipped spine and ex-library markings. 1st edition, 1st printing. More about PERUVIAN TEXTILES. Examples of the Pre-Incaic Period, with a Chronology of Early Peruvian Cultures
Colorado Springs; Westport: 1959; 1983 (reprint). xii, 273 pages, 48 pages of photographs, 1 figure, 31 tables. Cloth cover. More about NAVAHO ART AND CULTURE
Stuttgart: Strecker und Schrader, 1926. xxii, 876pages; 56 full-page photographs, 1441 smaller photographs and drawings (illustrations of hundreds of artifacts from the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands), 4 double-page maps. Cloth cover, illustration inserted on front cover. Good condition. More about DREISSIG JAHRE IN DER SUDSEE. Land und Leute, Sitten und Gebrauche in Bismarckarchipel und auf...
London: Privately printed. 1900. iv, 100 pages of text plus 50 pages of photographs of 389 objects. Fine condition. Later cloth cover. Hundreds of objects were acquired during the British Punitive Expedition that scoured Benin City; most were stored in the author's private museum in Dorset. This classic inventory, with... More about ANTIQUE WORKS OF ART FROM BENIN, COLLECTED BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL PITT-RIVERS
1st ed., 2nd printing. xviii, 222 pages, 15 pages of photographs, 35 figures. Woven linen cover. More about NAVAJO SHEPHERD AND WEAVER
Uppsala: 1908. iv, 168 pages--the text deals with the history of "totemism" among primitive peoples. More about TILL FRAGAN OM UPPKOMSTEN AF SAKRAMENTALA MALTIDER, MED SARSKILD HANSE TILL TOTEMISM
Washington, D.C: 1989. vii, 607 pages, 1611 photographs, 7 maps. Cloth cover. More about AFRICAN ART IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS
Rough Rock: 1983. 180 pages, 93 photographs--principally of rock art, baskets, and tablitos, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More about DINETAH. Navajo History Vol. II
Los Angeles: 1988. 279 pages, 31 color and 191 b/w photographs, 38 drawings, 3 maps. Soft cover ed. This volume, a fitting epilogue to the brilliant career of its editor and principal contributor, Arnold Rubin, is a seminal study on tattoo and scarification in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Native America, and... More about MARKS OF CIVILIZATION. Artistic Transformations of the Human Body
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1929. (1st edition). 288 pages of text containing 11 diagrams; plus 62 leaves of sepia photographs, folding map in rear. Original red cloth cover, spine sunned. Some very light foxing to upper edges, otherwise very good. An ethnographic study of the Dusun of North Borneo and... More about THE PAGANS OF NORTH BORNEO
Cambridge: 1998. xiii, 257 pages (9 papers), 30 figures. Cloth cover. "The contributors to this volume trace the life history of objects that were brought to Europe and America from the Congo towards the end of the 19th century, and became the subjects of museum displays". Chapters discuss the business... More about THE SCRAMBLE FOR ART IN CENTRAL AFRICA
PEABODY MUSEUM, Papers, Vol. 66, 1971. Cambridge. Two volumes. 455 pages, 74 pages of photographs and drawings of over 1,000 objects, drawings of over 200 types of designs, 43 tables, 3 charts. More about THE POTTERY OF MAYAPAN, Including Studies of Ceramic Material From Uxmal, Kabah, and Chichen Itza
Travaux et Memoires de L'Institut D'Ethnologie, XXVI. Paris: 1937. xvi, 571 pages of text containing 22 figures, plus 17 leaves of photographs and 10 leaves of maps. Cloth cover. In 1937 Jaques Soustelle wrote his ethnographic linguistic treatise on the Otomi of Central Mexico, the most comprehensive study done of... More about LA FAMILLE OTOMI-PAME DU MEXIQUE CENTRAL
Philadelphia: 1949. xiii, 192 pages of text containing 10 figures, plus 16 pages of photographs--principally of about 120 masks and other artifacts. Cloth cover. More about MIDWINTER RITES OF THE CAYUGA LONG HOUSE
London: 1914. xx, 516 pages of text containing 5 drawings, plus 100 pages of b/w and color photographs of sacred objects, weapons, ornaments, and decorated art and 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. More about NATIVE TRIBES OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
Field Museum, Anthropological Series, Vol. 31, No. 1: 1939. 163 pages (some uncut) containing 1 figure and 1 map, plus 16 pages of photographs. More about ANTHROPOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS ON THE ESKIMOS AND INDIANS OF LABRADOR
Field Museum Anthropological Series, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 1930. Pp. 27-213 pages of text (some uncut), plus 17 pages of photographs and 7 pages of drawings, 1 map. This publication resulted from four visits made in 1927 and 1928 by the author, one of the leading authorities on the ethnology... More about ETHNOLOGY OF THE MAYAS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH HONDURAS
Berlin: (Orbis Pictus, Band 13,n.d. ca. 1925). 74 pages, 48 full-page photographs of masks of primitive peoples. Hard board cover. More about MASKEN
Rotterdam: 1957. 26 pages of text followed by 16 pages of photographs of a wide variety of 17-19th century objects of material culture and decorative objects of the peoples of Egypt and the Sudan. More about DES ABABDES ET DES BICHARINS, Une Collection Ethnographique Dans Le Museum Voor Land-en Volkenkunde
Musee Royal de L'Afrique Centrale: 1986. 101 pages, 81 half and full-page photographs. Mint condition. A complement to the seminal 1985 Tabwa catalogue, Tabwa, the Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art, this catalogue of the Tabwa collection of the Royal Museum of Central Africa adds one... More about TABWA
Tulane University. Publication 14, 1948. Excavations at Zacualpa, Guatemala, 192 pages, 25 plates, 79 figures. More about MIDDLE AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Publication 14, 1948. Excavations at Zacualpa, Guatemala
New York: 1950. 204 pages, 118 photographs--almost all full-page or half-page--and 61 drawings. Cloth cover. More about SCULPTURE OF NEGRO AFRICA
xvi, 230 pages, 155 figures. Cloth cover. London, 1938; 1954, 1955 (2nd ed. with new preface). More about CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY. An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique