THE ARTS OF INDIA AND NEPAL. The Nash and Alice Heeramaneck Collection.
Museum of Fine Arts. Boston: 1966. 185 pages, approximately 10 color and 85 b/w photographs. 1 map. More
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JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY. The spine reads: 1932
This thick volume contains the complete Volume 41 (1932) and Memoir No. 10 (Maori Music with Its Polynesian Background). 179, 29-78, 180-252, 79-108, 1-20, 253-328, 109-140 pages. Bound in a later red cloth binding. The condition is fair- good. More
ART DU NAGALAND
Geneva: Barbier-Muller Museum, 1982. 76 pages, 41 color photographs of objects in the collection, 24 b/w field photographs, 2 maps. Mint condition. More
ISLANDS AND ANCESTORS. Indigenous Styles of Southeast Asia
Munich: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988. 362 pages, 76 full-page color and duotone photographs, 280 b/w photographs--principally of tribal sculpture from Indonesia, but also from the Philippines, Vietnam, and Taiwan--12 maps. Small folio size. Cloth cover. More
AINU LIFE AND LORE. ECHOES OF A DEPARTING RACE.
Kyobunkwan, Tokyo: 1927. 14 (unnumbered), 449 pages of text containing 65 b/w photographs and drawings of artifacts and people, plus 10 unnumbered leaves of color plates. Gilt decorated, blue cloth cover. Fine condition. More
OMAI; FIRST POLYNESIAN AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND
San Francisco: 1940. The True Story of His Voyage There in 1774 with Captain Cook; of How He was Feted by Fanny Burney, Approved by Samuel Johnson, Entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich and Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 115 pages, photographs of the portrait of Omai painted by..... More
KILENGE LIFE AND ART.
London: 1974. 132 pages, 246 photographs. Cloth cover. More
AINU, Spirit of a Northern People.
Smithsonian Institution: 1999. 415 pages, 317 color photographs, 251 b/w photographs, 9 plans and diagrams, 18 maps. Cloth cover. An unsurpassed exhibition of Ainu art at the Smithsonian Institu-tion was accompanied by this superb catalogue that contain fifty-five papers by leading Japanese, American, and European scholars and photographs of many..... More
MALANGGAN BILDWERKE VON NEUIRLAND
Berlin: 1973. 313 pages, 154 b/w and 12 color photographs--all full-page, illustrating the vast, older collection of New Ireland art in the Museum fur Volkerkunde Berlin. More
SEPIK DIARY
Northbridge (Australia): 1984. 174 unnumbered pages, recording the 500 mile 1977 journey of the author ( a celebrated artist) in a dugout canoe. Almost every page is filled with drawings (of artifacts and people) made on the journey and diary entries discussing them. Leather cover, edition limited to 600 numbered..... More
TEXTILES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA, An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography
Bangkok: 1994. 212 pages, 101 color photographs. Cloth cover. Eagerly awaited, this heavily illustrated bibliography is the first in-depth compilation of literature dealing with Southeast Asian textiles, and should be a wonderful tool for any person or institution seriously interested in these magnificent weavings. Organized by country or groups of..... More
PEARLS AND SAVAGES. Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea--in New Guinea
New York & London: 1924. xiii, 414 pages, 80 photographs--almost all full-page-of the people, customs, rituals, and artifacts of western New Guinea. Cloth cover. More
CRAFTS OF JAMMU, KASHMIR & LADAKH.
Ahmedabad and Middletown: 1990. 228 pages, 170 large color photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
THE ART OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
Washington D.C. 1979. 365 pages, 405 b/w 13 color photographs. Later cloth cover. One of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Pacific Art ever mounted was held the summer of 1979 at the National Gallery of Art. This dazzling exhibition was comprised of over 400 objects, many of them never before..... More
NEDERLANDS NIEUW-GUINEA, EEN LAND IN OPBOUW.
Den Haag: n.d--probably 1955 or 1956. 126 pages of text containing 7 drawings and 5 maps, plus 16 pages of photographs. Hard board cover. More
CRAFT TREASURES OF OKINAWA
Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 1978. 294 pages, 164 pages (folio-size 14 1/2" x 10 1/4") of color photographs and 32 pages of b/w photographs. Cloth cover. New and unopened copy in a slipcase. The 1974 exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto was the first..... More
THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF ART IN NORTHERN NEW IRELAND
Field Museum, Fieldiana, Anthropology, Vol. 58: 1969. 186 pages, 54 illustrations including many full-page photographs of malanggan figures, 3 tables. More
TIE-DYED TEXTILES OF INDIA. Tradition and Trade
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
OCEANIC ART
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
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
OOST-INDISCHE CULTURES. Opnieuw Uitgegeven Ondes Redactie Van
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
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