BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, R.N., F.RS, Circumnavigator
Sydney: 1928, 1970 (2nd ed.). xvi, 894 pages, Cloth cover. "...fully revised, 14,078 annotated entries and enourmously extended" More
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A COLLECTION OF THE KAZAK FOLK ART DESIGNS
Urumgi: 1979. 204 pages (text in English and Chinese), 184 pages of color illustrations of the rich color designs found on the rugs, blankets, clothing, saddles, and jewelry, as well as metal and wooden utensils and tools, of the Kazak people of west China. Cloth cover. The Kazak people of..... More
HALI - The Second Annual. ASIAN ART.
226 pages (filled with color photographs), 10 papers dealing (principally) with Asian carpets, textiles, and costumes, in addition to painting, ceramics, and metal work. Also included is Thomas Murray’s acclaimed paper, "Demons and Deities, Masks of the Himalayas" (pp. 54-79 with 37 large color photographs), and heavily illustrated papers on..... More
RESEARCH IN MELANESIA. Vol. 18, 1994
Boroko: University of Papua New Guinea. 202 pages. 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
TOBALAND. The Shreds of Tradition
Geneva: 1983. 237 pages, 179 b/w and 29 color photographs--mostly of Batak art, 2 maps, 1 fold-out chart. More
THE TINGUAN. Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe
Field Museum Anthropological Series, Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1922. Pp. 227-403 (containing 26 figures), plus 83 pages of photographs,1 map. Later cloth cover. Mint condition. This long out of print Field Museum study deals with the Tinguian, a tribe that numbered about 20,000 at the time this was published, and..... More
NAAR DE EEUWIGE SNEEUW VAN TROPISCH NEDERLAND. De Bestijging van het Carstenszgebergte in Nederlandsch Nieuw Guinee
Amsterdam: 1937. 286 pages of text containing 2 drawings, plus 76 unnumbered pages of photographs of this expedition to the Carstensz Mountains, and one fold-out color map. Original blue cloth cover, gilt letters on cover and spine. More
THE HERVEY ISLANDS ADZES IN THE PEABODY MUSEUM OF SALEM
Salem: Peabody Museum, 1937. 16 pages of text plus 12 pages of photographs and drawings of adzes and their design elements. Fine-excellent condition. More
ORISSA: KUNST UND KULTUR IN NORDOST-INDIEN
Zurich: Museum Reitberg, 1980. 360 pages, 703 b/w and 53 color photographs, 44 drawings. More
BATAKLANDEN (Deel VIII) plus MALEISCHE LAND EN TER SUMATRA’S NOORDOOSTKUST (Sumatra II).
RIJKS ETHNOGRAPHISCH MUSEUM, (Deel VIII) and (Sumatra II): 1914. 208 pages of text containing 31 drawings and photographs plus 1 page of color photographs and 11 pages of b/w photographs of 40 objects--carved staffs, weapons, jewelry, basketry, masks, textiles, and carved figures. Near mint condition. More
SUD-SUMATRA (Sumatra IV).
RIJKS ETHNOGRAPHISCH MUSEUM, Band XII, Leiden: 1918. 300 pages of text containing 37 drawings and photographs plus 16 pages of photographs of 90 objects--jewelry, personal decorative objects, clothing, decorated basketry and textiles, headdresses, weapons, altar objects, containers, and houses. Later coth cover over original wrappers. Near mint condition. More
DIE VOLKER DER SUDSEE. Die Mikronesier und Nordwestlichen Polynesier(a); Die Polynesier, Melanesier,Australier, und Tasmanier(b)
Leipzig: 1870, 1872. (a) xxiv, 230 pages. (b) xxii, 829 pages. Later cloth cover, gilt titles. This is part of the six volume series, Antropologie der Naturvolker, of which this work is Volume 5, Part 2, and Volume 6. Taylor, p. 61; Catalog of the South Pacific Collection, University of..... More
MYTHOS TAHITI SUDSEETRAUM UND REALITAT
Stuttgart: Linden Museum, 1987. 144 pages, 21 pages of color photographs and drawings and 33 pages of b/w photographs and drawings. More
CRAFTS OF JAMMU, KASHMIR & LADAKH.
Ahmedabad and Middletown: 1990. 228 pages, 170 large color photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
COURT ARTS OF INDONESIA
New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1990. 288 pages, 157 color photographs--many full-page and double-page, 71 b/w photographs, 5 drawings--all photographs and drawings of the arts of the royal court, dating back to the 8th and 9th centuries, and including jewelry, masks, sculptures, sacred weapons, carvings, musical instrucments, royal textiles, manuscripts..... More
FOLK ORIGINS OF INDIAN ART
New York: 1969. 245 pages of text containing 215 b/w photographs and 1 map, plus 16 unnumbered pages of color photographs. More
KINSHIP IN THE ADMIRALTY ISLANDS
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Anthropological Papers, Vol. XXXIV, Part II: 1934. Pp. 181-358, 17 figures. More
MAORI HOUSES AND FOOD STORES
Dominion Museum, Monograph No. 8, Wellington: 1952. 212 pages, 132 b/w photographs, 1 color plate. Cloth cover. More
THE ART OF CHINESE RITUAL MASKS
In a decorated slipcase there are a decorated, cloth-bound volume (with text in Chinese and captions in English and Chinese) and a soft cover volume (with an English text). Both volumes are 9"x12". Cloth bound volume: 263 pages, 670 color photographs--approximately 600 are of masks; the balance are of dancers..... More
THE VEDDAS.
Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series, 1911. xix, 463 pages of text containing 15 drawings ( of artifacts and plans, plus 7 leaves of photographs--principally of shamanic ceremonies and objects), fold-out map in rear pocket. Cloth cover. More
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