Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 079, 1923. BLOOD REVENGE, WAR, AND VICTORY FEASTS AMONG THE JIBARO INDIANS OF EASTERN ECUADOR
Karsten, R. 101 pages, 10 plates. More
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THE HARKNESS COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Calendar of Spanish Manuscripts Concerning Peru
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1932. x, 336 pages, unopened copy, some pages uncut. 3/4 linen and morocco cover. More
THE ART OF THE ANCIENT MAYA
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1959. 124 pages, 95 b/w photographs--all large, may full-page and 4 full-page color photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
TREASURES OF ANCIENT AMERICA. Mexico to Peru.
Geneva: 1964. xiv, 229 pages, 60 b/w and 85 color photographs--mainly full-page, 1 map. Cloth cover. More
SYMBOLISM OF THE HUICHOL INDIANS.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORy, Memoirs, Vol. III-1: 1900. 228 pages of text containing 291 drawings of Huichol artifacts, plus 3 pages of color illustrations, 1 page of b/w illustrations, 1 page of photographs, 2 maps. Original wrappers. Folio size (11"x14"). When this work was published, in the first year..... More
ARQUITECTURA PREHISPANICA
Memorias del Instituto Nacional de Anropologia e Historia, I. Mexico City: 1951. xix, 970 pages, 476 photographs, 291 drawings, 33 figures, maps on endpapers. Cloth cover. Inscribed by author. More
INDIAN CRAFTS OF GUATEMALA AND EL SALVADOR
Norman: 1965. 416 pages, 140 b/w and 48 color illustrations. Cloth cover, new and unopend copy in dust jacket. This indispensable, heavily illustrated volume is the best general survey in English, and it provides a village by village account of the arts and crafts of these two countries. Though the..... More
WILLIAM SPRATLING
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
THE MAYA CHONTAL INDIANS OF ACHLAN-TIXCHEL. A Contribution to the History and Ethnography of the Yucatan Peninsula
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION, Contributions to American Archaeology. Publication 560: 1948. x, 565 pages, 4 fold-out maps. More
Arqueolgia del Valle de Mexico I. CULHUACAN
INAH, Mexico City: 1970. 214 pages, 127 pages of b/w and 8 pages of color illustrations of over 1,500 objects. 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
ETHNOLOGY OF THE MAYAS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH HONDURAS
Field Museum Anthropological Series, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 1930. Pp. 27-213 pages of text (some uncut), plus 17 pages of photographs and 7 pages of drawings, 1 map. This publication resulted from four visits made in 1927 and 1928 by the author, one of the leading authorities on the ethnology..... More
TEXTILES OF THE ANDES. Catalog of the Amano Collection
Tokyo: 1979, 1983. 248 pages, 181 color plates, many b/w drawings. Red linen cover in a slip case. Folio size (11 3/4" x 17"). Originally published in 1977 under the title "Textiles of the pre-Incaic Period: Catalog of the Amano Collection", this sumptuous volume was reissued in a limited printing..... More
MEXICAN COPPER TOOLS: THE USE OF COPPER BY THE MEXICANS BEFORE THE CONQUEST; and THE KATUNES OF MAYA HISTORY. A CHAPTER IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF CENTRAL AMERICA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PIO PEREZ MANUSCRIPT (translated from the German by Stephen Salisbury, Jr., and signed by him)
Worcester: 1880. 102 pages, 14 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover, embossed pattern. More
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