NAVAJO SANDPAINTING. From Religious Act to Commercial Art
Tucson: 1983. 273 pages, 61 b/w and 9 color photographs, 5 charts, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
Tucson: 1983. 273 pages, 61 b/w and 9 color photographs, 5 charts, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
Iowa City: 1991. 445 pages, 247 figures. Cloth cover. The first interdisciplinary collection of current research results on the 900-year-long Paracas textile tradition of Peru's south coast. This volume contains eight essays by eminent scholars. Examining the iconography, imagery, and fiber content of the textiles, the eight papers bring new..... More
Madrid: 1954. Both volumes are covered in linen, and measure 9 1/2" x 12 1/2". Volume I: Texto. xvi, 367 pages, 201 photographs and drawings, 20 full-page color photographs. Volume II: Laminas. 20 pages of text plus 300 pages of photographs. From the library of noted archaeologist, Donald Collier, and..... More
Seattle: 1977. 308 pages, 307 photographs. Cloth cover. More
Washington, D.C: 1989. vii, 607 pages, 1611 photographs, 7 maps. Cloth cover. More
London: 1922. xvi, 327 pages, 105 photographs, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. More
Paris: 1957. 106 pages, 60 b/w and 12 color photographs--many full-page. More
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
Graz: 1994. 236 pages, 32 pages of color and 24 pages of b/w photographs--principally of shamans, rituals, and the traditional regalia, masks, and other artifacts used in those rites by shamans in Ladakh. Cloth cover. More
New York: 1997. 231 pages (4 papers), 131 brilliant color photographs of Maya garments, rituals, and ceremonies, 11 b/w photographs, 6 drawings, 2 maps. Cloth cover. More
New York: 1990. 542 pages of text containing 223 figures, plus 16 pages of color photographs. Cloth and hardboard cover. More
Berlin: 1928. 442 pages, 34 full-page photographs, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover, rubbed; photographic insert. More
London: 1899. viii, 552 pages, stain on the upper right hand corner of most pages, 84 illustrations. Cloth cover. More
New Delhi: 1979. 221 pages, 6 pages of photographs, 12 pages of drawings. Cloth cover. More
Krefeld: 1991. 133 pages, 56 full-page and 6 smaller color photographs, 4 b/w photographs, 1 map. In 1991, the German Textile Museum in Krefeld presented the first exhibition in Europe of 15th-19th Century Aymara textiles. The textiles, superb examples from the author's collection of these Bolivian weavings, are wonderfully illustrated..... More
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
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
New York: 1934, 1961. 694 pages, 875 photographs and drawings of several thousand weapons and armor. Cloth cover, small folio size (8 1/2" x11 1/2"). 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
Salt Lake City: 1996. XII, 321 pages (12 papers), 48 figures. Cloth cover. More
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
Norman: 1991. XVII, 196 pages, 108 color and 28 b/w photographs. Cloth cover. A volume of great importance, this is the first systematic study of the late 19th century Hispanic religious images, or santos, made in New Mexico and Colorado for the Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus Nazarene (Penitentes). In..... More