KAPAUKU PAPUANS AND THEIR LAW
Yale Univ. Pubs. in Anthro., No. 54: 1958. 296 pages of text containing 9 figures and 3 tables, plus 8 pages of photographs. Original wrappers. More
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SPIDER WOMAN. A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters
New York: 1934. 287 pages, 15 pages of photographs and a double-page color photographs of a sand-painting. Cloth cover. More
AFRICAN ART IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS.
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New Delhi: 1979. 221 pages, 6 pages of photographs, 12 pages of drawings. Cloth cover. More
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New York: 1976. 272 pages, 169 b/w and 23 color photographs. Cloth cover. More
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Monographien zur Volkerkunde, III. Hamburg Museum fur Volkerkunde: 1962. xv, 492 pages of text containing 9 pages of drawings, 1 map and 1 fold-out chart; plus 27 unnumbered pages that contain 5 pages of color photographs and 7 pages of b/w photographs. Small folio size (9" x 12"). More
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DE NGBANDI. Naar Het Leven Geschest
Congo Bibliotheek, XXIX. Brugge: 1929. iv, 288 pages (some uncut), 113 photographs. More
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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
THE ISLAND WORLD OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
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