AFRICAN ART IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS.
New York: 1966. 238 pages (text in English and French), 347 photographs. Cloth cover. Fine condition. More
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THE JUNIUS B. BIRD PRE-COLUMBIAN TEXTILE CONFERENCE
Washington, D.C: 1979. 278 pages, 247 illustrations. Cloth cover. This volume is the outgrowth of a conference held in the spring of 1973, and contains fifteen of the papers that were presented by a distinguished group of pre-Columbian textile scholars. The papers presented new research in the field and covered..... More
KILENGI. AFRICAN ART FROM THE BAREISS FAMILY COLLECTION
Hannover and Seattle: 1999. 420 pages, 213 large color photographs--mostly full-page, 15 smaller color photographs, 213 small b/w photographs, 10 maps. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Mint condition. Acquired over the last 15-20 years, the Bareiss collection of African art contains outstanding examples--most never before published--of prototypical pieces from Guinea..... More
EARLY NASCA NEEDLEWORK
London: 1997. 175 pages, 148 color photographs, 2 pages of b/w photographs, 9 pages of drawings, 3 maps. Cloth cover. The spectacularly beautiful iconography represented in early (A.D. 100-200) Nasca embroidered textiles from the Ica and Nasca Valleys is scrupulously examined in this work, perhaps the clearest definition to date..... More
EARTH AND ORE. 2500 Years of African Art in Terra-Cotta and Metal.
Munich: 1997. 382 pages, 677 color photographs, 13 pages of maps. Cloth cover, mint condition. A splendid work, remarkable in both the scope and detail of its examination of African terra-cotta and metal objects. With separate sections dealing with nine different regions (containing essays by nine noted experts) and almost..... More
DIE NEGRITO ASIENS (two volumes)
Vienna: 1954. 1957. Vol. I: xiv, 340 pages of text containing 26 figures (almost entirely drawings of artifacts), plus 42 pages of photographs. Vol. II: xiv, 336 pages of text containing 19 drawings of artifacts and designs, plus 8 pages of photographs. Cloth covers. Studia Instituti Anthropos, Vols. 12 and..... More
HORNBILL AND DRAGON. Kalimantan, Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei.
Jakarta: 1989 (1st edition). 272 pages, 535 color and 2 b/w photographs, 210 drawings, 3 maps. Cloth cover, small folio size (10"x12 1/2"). A superb volume that presents a visual encyclopedia of the traditional arts of Borneo, this edition had a rather small print run and is out of print..... More
AFRICAN SPIRIT IMAGES AND IDENTITIES
New York: Pace Gallery, 1976. 102 pages, 126 b/w and 6 large color photographs--many full-page. More
UNTER DEM GLUTHIMMEL DER TROPEN. Durch die Sudsee, Fidschi, Sumatra, Australieu usw
Lubeck: 1926. 440 pages, 189 photographs. Decorated linen cover. More
MIDWINTER RITES OF THE CAYUGA LONG HOUSE
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
NATIVE TRIBES OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
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
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
TO WEAVE FOR THE SUN. Andean Textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston: 1992. 271 pages, 91--mostly full-page--color photographs, 390 b/w photographs, 23 drawings, 2 maps. Cloth cover. Documenting more than 300 superb pre-Columbian and Colonial Andean textiles in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this wonderful catalogue presents the collection (exhibited in 1992, for the first time) that..... More
AFRICAN ART IN MOTION
UCLA and National Gallery of Art, 1974. 276 pages, 275 b/w and 10 color photographs, 1 map. Soft cover ed. More
THE FOUR MOMENTS OF THE SUN: KONGO ART IN TWO WORLDS
Washington, D.C. 1981. 256 pages, 301 b/w and 12 color photographs, 38 drawings. A handsomely mounted, relatively unheralded, important exhibition of Kongo funerary art was held at the National Gallery of Art in 1981 and 1982. This striking catalogue of that exhibition contains lengthy, important essays by the curators/authors and..... More
NOMADS OF NIGER
New York: 1983. 224 pages, 144 full-page and double-page color photographs, 46 drawings--almost all of artifacts of the Wodaabe of Niger, 1 map. Cloth cover, small folio size (13"x10"). More
EN DIVINA LUZ. THE PENITENTE MORADAS OF NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque: 1994. xvii, 130 pages, 68 full-page photogrpahs, 18 smaller photographs. Cloth cover. More
MOCHE, Propuestas y Perspectives. Actas de Primer Coloquio sobre la Cultura Moche. Trujillo, 12 al 16 abril de 1993
Lime: 1994. 550 pages. 250 figures containing hundreds of photographs, drawings and maps, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates. In April of 1993, in the city of Trujillo, Peru, the first colloquium on Moche culture was convened. Eighteen specialists from all over the world met for four days to discuss..... More
YAKUTAT SOUTH INDIAN ART OF THE NORTHWEST COAST
Art Institute, Chicago: 1964. 82 pages, 110 b/w and 2 color photographs, all very large. More
CERAMICAS DEL ANTIGUO PERU, De La Coleccion Wasserman-San Blas
Buenos Aires: 1938. xxxi, 367 pages, 597 b/w and color photographs, 2 maps. Hard board cover, with dust jacket; inner hinges reinforced. Small folio size (9 1/2" x 12 1/2"). Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. More
ANCESTORS OF THE LAKE. ART OF LAKE SENTANI AND HUMBOLDT BAY, NEW GUINEA. The Menil Collection
Houston: 2011. 135 pages, 47 large color and b/w photograph of objects in the exhibition and taken in the field, 40 additional large color and b/w photogrpahs, 2 maps. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
STEINE UND ORTE, Altmexikanische Steinskulpturen und Plastiken der Gegenwart
Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen: 1991. 220 pages, 14 color and 101 b/w photographs. Cloth cover. The aesthetic relationship between Mexican pre-Columbian stone sculpture and contemporary sculpture utilizing the many conformations of the cube were explored in an elegant 1991 exhibition at the Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen. The stone sculptures, drawn from a...... More
DESIGN MOTIFS ON MEXICAN INDIAN TEXTILES
Graz: 1976. Two volumes. 504 pages, 198 pages of b/w drawings, 8 pages of color drawings, 67 smaller b/w drawings, 1 map, 1 photographs. Cloth covers, folio size (11" x 14 1/2"). These two spectacular volumes provide more information than any other publications on the individual motifs and decorative qualities..... More
THE RUINS OF ZACULEU GUATEMALA
United Fruit Co., Richmond: 1953. (two volumes). Vol. I: xviii, 324 pages, 168 figures, 2 fold-out maps in rear pocket. Vol. II: vi, pp. 325-466, 3 pages of color and 120 pages of b/w photographs, 4 pages of drawings. Decorated gilt cloth covers. More
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