Ethnographic Arts Publications

ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA: Native American Artifacts in the British Museum

King, J.c.h

London: 1981. 224 pages, 255 b/w and 30 color photographs. Cloth cover, mint condition. Item #9458

This is the first published catalogue of Northwest Coast objects housed in the British Museum's Museum of Mankind, and collected on Cook's third voyage and through three further 18th century accessions. Illustrated and discussed in great detail are 137 Aleut, Eskimo, and Northwest Coast artifacts--most of which have not been previously published, and many of which are of extraordinary quality and of which few examples exist.

Price: $250.00