Field Museum Anthropological Series, Vol. XXII, 1933: 1962, 2nd printing. 334 pages, 35 pages of figures, illustrating 258 objects of material culture. The Tanala, occupants of a wooded and mountainous region in the southern third of the eastern part of Madagascar, had, at the time of this more than sixty..... More
Field Museum, Anthropology Series, Vol. 32, No. 2: Second Season, 1941. Pp. 98-271, 49 photographs and drawings, 12 maps. From the library of famed anthropologis/archaeologist Donald Collier, and signed by him. More
Munich: 1985. 183 pages (text in English, French and German), 63 photographs, 1 map. Hard board cover. Fine condition. This study of Songye sculpture, in particular, grooved kifwebe (masks), provides a first-rate summary of the history of the carvings and their usage and the secret societies for which they were..... More
Edinburgh: 1920. xix, 398 pages, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More
New York: 1991. 206 pages, 208 color and 14 b/w photographs of textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 5 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
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
Madrid: Museo de America, 1980. 209 pages, 33 pages of photographs, 12 pages of drawings. Seldom seen Peruvian pre-Columbian textiles from the collection of the Museo de America, Madrid are published for the first time in this catalogue. Two essays (in Spanish)--on the history of Andean textiles and on textile..... More
New York: 1966. 238 pages (text in English and French), 347 photographs. Cloth cover. Fine condition. More
1977. 120 pages, 130 large b/w and 7 color photographs, 15 drawings. More
Mexico City: Central Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, 1987. 277 pages, pages 42-214 consist solely of very large, very dramatically lighted photographs of Spratling's work, plus 2 additional full-page photographs and 3 smaller photographs. In 1987, Mexico City's Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo mounted a major exhibtion of the work of the great silversmith..... More
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
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
Munich: 1980. 300 pages, 170 b/w and 12 color photographs. Mint condition. From over 1000 Ibeji in private German collections, 400 figures (all previously unpublished) were selected, stylistically analyzed, and classified according to their place of origion within the Yoruba area. In this, the first comprehensive volume about the Ere..... More
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
New York: Center for African Art, 1990. 194 pages, 123 color and 62 b/w photographs, 1 map. cloth ed. More
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
New York: 1954. 128 pages, 96 full-page photographs of objects, principally in Swiss and German museums, maps on endpapers. Cloth cover, folio size. More
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
Amsterdam: 1913, enlarged 2d edition. 3 vols. Vol. I: viii, 399 pages, 92 photographs and drawings. Vol. II: viii, 911 pages, 289 photographs and drawings. Vol. III: viii, 874, xxviii pages; 212 photographs and drawings. Blue and gilt cloth covers. Stain on covers of Vols. 1 and 3. More
New York and Berlin: 1954. 321 pages, 369 photographs of masterworks from West, Central,and East Africa. 3/4 decorated linen cover. This was, "...the first systematic survey of sculpture apart from the comparatively well-known work of West Africa. It is the finest comprehensive analysis of sculpture originating in the Sudan, North..... More
New York: 1986. 132 pages, 36 color and 113 b/w photographs, 19 drawings, 2 maps. Cloth cover ed. More
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
