ALEUT AND ESKIMO ART. Tradition and Innovation in Southern Alaska
Seattle: 1980,1981. 224 pages, 224 photographs. Cloth cover. More
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BASKETRY OF THE SAN CARLOS APACHE
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Anthropological Papers, Vol. XXXI, Part II: 1929. Pp. 121-218 (some pages uncut), 22 photographs, 2 drawings, 3 pages of drawings of basketry designs, 1 map. Published in 1929, this is stil the best and most thorough study on the beautiful basket work of the San..... 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
POWER AND GOLD. Jewelry From Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
Geneva: Barbier-Muller Museum, 1985, 1990. 2nd edition. 369 pages, 353 color and 122 b/w photographs of ritual hereditary jewelry, 11 maps. The ritual hereditary jewelry of the peoples of the outer islands of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines who have retained their rituals and myths, is seldom exhibited and even..... More
ARTE TEXTIL EN INDONESIA
Barcelona: Museo Ethnologico, , n.d., ca 1990. 78 pages, 28 pages of b/w photographs, 8 full-page color photographs plus 7 smaller photographs, 1 map. More
MARKS OF CIVILIZATION. Artistic Transformations of the Human Body
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
MYTHSCAPES. Aboriginal Art of the Desert
National Gallery of Victoria: 1989. 104 pages, 59 color photographs, 8 b/w photographs, 2 pages of drawings, 1 map. More
KUNST UND KULTUR VON PERU
Propylaen Kunstgeschicte, Berlin: 1929. 622 pages, 452 pages of b/w and color (tipped-in, with tissue guards) photographs. Original green linen cover, leather black/red gilt spine. Very good + condition. One of the most important and largest photographic records of the art of pre-Columbian Peru. More
DAS WESKTATIGE INDIEN, Sein Werden und Sein Kampf, Auf Grand der Indienreise dei Deutschen Textilarbeiter-Delegation
Berlin: 1928. 442 pages, 34 full-page photographs, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover, rubbed; photographic insert. More
KALAMKARI. Painted and Printed Fabrics from Andhra Pradesh
New York: 1985. 94 pages, 70 pages of textile illustrations, 4 pages of photographs. Cloth cover. More
EASTERN HIMALAYAS, A Study on Anthropology and Tribalism
New Delhi: 1979. 221 pages, 6 pages of photographs, 12 pages of drawings. Cloth cover. More
NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN ART. Masks, Amulets, Wood Carving and Ceremonial Dress From the North-West Coast
London: 1967. Great color photographs of Northwest Coast masterpieces, mainly from the collections of the Museum of Anthropology, Leningrad and the Museum of Anthropology, University Lomonsov, Moscow. Cloth cover, 9 1/2" x 12" 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
KUNST UND KULTUR AUS DER SUDSE. Sammlung Clausmeyer Melanesien
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums. Cologne: 1987. 389 pages, 46 full and half-page color and 465 b/w photographs of the artifacts in the world-famous Clausmeyer collection of Melanesian art, 27 drawings, 6 maps. Hard board cover. 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
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN YUCATAN. Reports of Explorations for the Museum
PEABODY MUSEUM Memoirs, Vol. III, No. 1, Cambridge, 1904: New York. 1970 (reprint). 20 pages of text containing 10 figures, plus 12 pages of photographs and drawings. More
CLOSEUP. Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture
New York: Center for African Art, 1990. 194 pages, 123 color and 62 b/w photographs, 1 map. cloth ed. More
ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES IN SOUTHERN INDIA
Delhi: 1907, 1975. (two volumes). Vol. I: viii, 365 pages, 25 full-page photographs. Vol. II: v, pp 366-580, 14 full-page photographs. Cloth covers. More
TOSHIEN SHODEN (Series I, II, III).
Atorie, Tokyo: 1935. Series I (chapters 1-5) . This volume deals with the painting of trees, mountains and rocks, and people and houses. Series II (chapters 6-9). This volume deals with the painting of orchids, bamboo, ume, and chrysanthemums. Series III (chapters 10-13).This volume deals with the painting of flowers..... 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
MIDDLE AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Publication 14, 1948. Excavations at Zacualpa, Guatemala
Tulane University. Publication 14, 1948. Excavations at Zacualpa, Guatemala, 192 pages, 25 plates, 79 figures. More
SANTOS, THE RELIGIOUS FOLK ART OF NEW MEXICO
Taylor Museum, Colorado Springs: 1943. 49 pages, followed by 142 unpaginated pages. 64 full-page photographs. Cloth cover. More
FIJI AND THE FIJIANS.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1859. First American edition. x, 551 pages, 8 b/w and 3 color plates, many illustrations in text, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover, spine rebacked. Vide Hill, p. 103: "One of the outstanding works on Fiji...contains information on the origin of the natives, their warlike..... More
BEAUTYWAY: A NAVAHO CEREMONIAL; Bollingen Series LIII
New York: 1957, 1975. 218 pages, 7 b/w and 16 full-page color reproductions of sandpaintings; booklet in rear pocket: "The Myth of Beautyway in Navaho Language" More
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