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northwest coast indian artists guild 1977 graphics collection , some underlining in text, else vg
Book ID#: J10786 Price: 10 Add to cart

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yakutat south indian art of the northwest coast , art inst of chicago , 1964 , vg paper copy
Book ID#: J10785 Price: 18 Add to cart

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(ceramics) Blomberg, Nancy J. and Polly Nordstrand - BREAKING THE MOLD: THE VIRGINIA VOGEL MATTERN COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART , Denver , 2006 , 96 page exhibition catalogue, with 156 beautiful colour illus. of mostly modern Pueblo pottery plus a few of other crafts. This is one of the few books entirely on the subject, most pieces having been collected since 1990. Fine NEW paper covers.
Book ID#: J10782 Price: 34 Add to cart

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(indigenous) Longenecker, Martha W. - designer & editor - A TRANSCULTURAL MOSAIC : SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF MINGEI INTERNATIONAL , San Diego , 1993 , 168 pages, 6 page essay followed by all colour, full page plates. finr in dust jacket. ISBN 0914155032
Book ID#: J10499 Price: 19 Add to cart

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(Mexican Masks) Izaguirre, Ava Ma. Garrido - PUREPECHA MASKS 2002 CATALOGUE , Morelia , 2002 , 70 pages, 90 colour illus. Extensive text in English. The masks and masked ceremonies of the Purepecha people throughout Michoacan, Mexico. It gives the names and addresses of the mask makers and others involved in the dances. New paper copy.
Book ID#: J10723 Price: 34 Add to cart

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(Mexico) NACIMIENTOS MEXICANOS , Fundacion Cultural Serfin , 1994 , 145 pages, all colour plates. Covers nativity scenes in all media from all over Mexico, the history and ritual uses. Spanish text. Fine cloth copy in VG+ D.J. ISBN 9687327014
Book ID#: J10717 Price: 140 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Mexico Desconocido - MICHOACAN FIESTAS Y TRADICIONES , 2001 , 94 page special small format paper booklet from the publishers of the periodical. With many colour illus. and text it covers the traditions, crafts, fiestas (with calendar of events), foods and recipes from the state of Michoacan, Mexico with text in Spanish. Fine paper copy. ISBN 9686520678
Book ID#: J10720 Price: 24 Add to cart

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(Navajo / Navaho) Cowdrey, Mike ; Ned and Jody Martin - AMERICAN INDIAN HORSE MASKS , Hawk Hill Press , 2006 , 106 pages. 45 horse masks from 27 museums and private collections. 200 stunning color images in a 12 x 15 inch format. Most date from the 19th century, all but one prior to 1915. Scores of other masks are illustrated by 18th and 19th century Indian paintings and drawings on rock, leather, cloth, and paper, and by historic photographs. FINE NEW COPY in dust jacket. ISBN 0965994759
Book ID#: J10774 Price: 86 Add to cart

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(Northwest Coast Masks) Kashevaroff, A. P. - DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET, ALASKA HISTORICAL MUSEUM , Juneau , 52 pages, profusly illustrated in b&w with over 100 pieces of Native American art shown. paper, very good + copy of an older publication(probably form the 1940s).
Book ID#: J10834 Price: 30 Add to cart

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(Pueblo) Hoffman, Sheila - CRAFTED TO PERFECTION: THE NANCY & ALAN CAMEROS COLLECTION OF SOUTHWESTERN POTTERY , Rockwell Museum , 2007 , 192 pages, recent Southwestern Native American pottery. Beautiful color plates of Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo work. FINE new in D.J.
Book ID#: J10799 Price: 90 Add to cart

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(Pueblo) Museum of Indian Arts and Culture - THE BUCHSBAUM GALLERY OF SOUTHWESTERN POTTERY , 24 inch stiff paper sheet folded to make a 10 page brochure showing nine Pueblo pots in colour with short text. fine copy.
Book ID#: J10780 Price: 9 Add to cart

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(Pueblo) Peckman, Stewart - FROM THIS EARTH THE ANCIENT ART OF PUEBLO POTTERY , Museum of New Mexico , 1990 , 169 pages, many photos and plates, some of modern work as well. A scarcely used paper copy from an architectural firm's library.
Book ID#: J10823 Price: 27 Add to cart

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MAN AND HIS VISION. THE TRADITIONAL WOOD SCULPTURE OF BURKINA FASO / L'HOMME ET SA DE LA VISION NATURE. LA SCULPTURE TRADITIONNELLE SUR BOIS DU BURKINA-FASO

(Africa) Dagan, Esther A. - MAN AND HIS VISION. THE TRADITIONAL WOOD SCULPTURE OF BURKINA FASO / L'HOMME ET SA DE LA VISION NATURE. LA SCULPTURE TRADITIONNELLE SUR BOIS DU BURKINA-FASO , Galerie Amrad, Montreal , 1987 , 64 pages, 183 b&w photo illustrations, 2 maps, 148 objects catalogued, bibliography. Parallel texts in English and French. paper copy, FINE as new. ISBN 0969308108
Book ID#: J9224 Price: 49 Add to cart

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(African Masks) Drost, Dietrich, Hans Damm and Werner Hartwig - ORNAMENT AND SCULPTURE IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETY , October House, NY , 1966 , 138 pages, 104 plates, some in colour. Covers the art, including masks, sculpture, a few textiles and some furniture, of Africa, Oceania and Siberia. Introductory text and complete description for each plate. Fine copy but for some damage to end paper only.
Book ID#: J10300 Price: 30 Add to cart

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(African Masks) Huet, Michel / Jean-Louis Paudrat - ART DANCE RITUAL OF AFRICA , Pantheon , 1978 , intro. by Jean Laude; 241 pages, w/text and many color & b&w plates; covering masked and body adorned dance rituals. Still a better book than the later picture- book version. fine.
Book ID#: J604 Price: 54 Add to cart

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(Argentina) CATALOGO DE LA PRIMERA EXPOSICION REPRESENTATIVA DE ARTESANAS ARGENTINAS , Argentina , 1968 , b&w & color illus. cat. on textiles, basketry, ceramics, wood w/list of artists in each medium; Spanish text; fine; paper
Book ID#: J53 Price: 39 Add to cart

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(ceramics) Dedera, Don - ARTISTRY IN CLAY: CONTEMPORARY POTTERY OF THE SOUTHWEST , Northland Press , 1985 , 85 pages, 70 ills half in colour; VG; paper.
Book ID#: J580 Price: 24 Add to cart

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(ceramics) Museo De Arte Contemporaneo - GUSTAVO PEREZ CERAMICA , Oaxaca, Mexico , 1994 , 31 page exhibition catalogue of the ceramics of the widely exhibited Mexican artist with 21 good close-up full-page plates in colour & b&w, essay, catalogue of the exhibition & biography, exhibition list. Spanish text. paper. fine
Book ID#: J8846 Price: 27 Add to cart

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(ceramics) Narez, Jesus - OASIS AMERICA , Nacional de Antropolog�a e Historia , 1991 , 60 pages many b&w plates, illus., maps, cat., bibl. Catalogue of Prehispanic art objects from S.W. U.S. and W. M�xico. LIimited edition-1,000 copies. ISBN: 968-6487-67-0
Book ID#: J10761 Price: 45 Add to cart

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(ceramics) Peterson, Susan - LUCY M. LEWIS AMERICAN INDIAN POTTER , Kodansha , 1984 , 218 pages. The life and work of the famed pottery maker from Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. A beautiful book with many photographs plates of the work, 127 b&w and 225 colour, including many good close-ups showing her at work during the various stages of the process. Fine in near fine D.J. ISBN 0870116851
Book ID#: J10377 Price: 111 Add to cart

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(ceramics) Toulouse, Betty - PUEBLO POTTERY OF THE NEW MEXICO INDIANS: EVER CONSTANT, EVER CHANGING , Museum of New Mexico Press , 1979 , 87 pages, illus. in b&w & some colour. Traces the history, the styles in the various vlliages where it's made
Book ID#: J8854 Price: 14 Add to cart

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Dockstader, Frederick - INDIAN ART IN MIDDLE AMERICA , N.Y.G.S. , 1964 , (Pre-Columbian & Contemporary Arts, Mexico, Central America &; Caribbean; VG; D.J.
Book ID#: J583 Price: 27 Add to cart

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Dockstader, Frederick J. - INDIAN ART IN AMERICA: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN , Promontory , ND , 224pg, 49pg of text plus 249 plates w/full; descriptions, 69 color pl, 180 b&w pl; fine; D.J.
Book ID#: J582 Price: 30 Add to cart

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Burland, Cottie - ESKIMO ART , Hamlyn , 1973 , fine.
Book ID#: J568 Price: 27 Add to cart

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(Eskimo Masks) Ray, Dorothy Jean - ESKIMO MASKS ART AND CEREMONY , Washington , 1967 , 246pg, 12col pl, 70b&w; VG+; paper. ASIN: 0295953535
Book ID#: J39 Price: 18 Add to cart

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FINE AMERICAN INDIAN ART , SOTHEBY-PARKE BERNET AUCTION CATALOGUE , OCT.23,1981 , 280b&w pl, 20col pl, paper; VG+
Book ID#: J100 Price: 20 Add to cart

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Fitzhugh, Wm./Crowell, A. - CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska , Smithsonian , 1988 , 360 pages w/many plates in color and b&w; a comprehensive study w/essays by many scholars. exhibition cat.; fine; paper
Book ID#: J41 Price: 27 Add to cart

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Haberland, Wolfgang - ART OF NORTH AMERICA , Crown , 1964 , 250 pages; 60 colour/95 b&w plates; covers damp stained, d.j. torn; contents ok.
Book ID#: J594 Price: 20 Add to cart

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INDIAN ART OF THE AMERICAS , Denver Museum , fine; paper.
Book ID#: J606 Price: 20 Add to cart

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Leftwich, Rodney L. - ARTS AND CRAFTS OF THE CHEROKEE , Land-of-the-Sky Press , 1970 , 160pg; many b&w illus; fine; decorative boards cover.
Book ID#: J617 Price: 54 Add to cart

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(Mexican Masks) MEXICO THROUGH ITS MASKS , Envgidia, M�xico , 1990 , 84 pages. About 40 pieces illus. in colour of the more than 6,000 masks in the Rafael Coronel collection in Zacatecas, Mexico. One of 1,500 copies. Text in English and Spanish. Very Good + cloth copy in Dust Jacket.
Book ID#: J10458 Price: 105 Add to cart

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(Mexican Masks) Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts - LA TERRE ET LE PARADIS : MASQUES MEXICAINS , Bruxelles, Aseguradora Obrera , 1993 , 228 pages, 400 masks of the over 5,000 masks in the Rafael Coronel collection illustrated and catalogued with descriptions and uses of each. Over 92 of those also illus. in larger color plates. Texts by Rafael Coronel and others. A great resource of Mexican masks from the late 19th century to the near present. Text in French. Very Good paper covers copy. ISBN 9069880660
Book ID#: J10743 Price: 95 Add to cart

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(Mexican Masks) Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts - LA TERRE ET LE PARADIS : MASQUES MEXICAINS , Bruxelles, Aseguradora Obrera , 1993 , 228 pages, 400 masks of the over 5,000 masks in the Rafael Coronel collection illustrated and catalogued with descriptions and uses of each. Over 92 of those also illus. in larger color plates. Texts by Rafael Coronel and others. A great resource of Mexican masks from the late 19th century to the near present. Text in French. Paper. FINE. ISBN 9069880660
Book ID#: J9009 Price: 128 Add to cart

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(Mexican Masks) Cordry, Donald - MEXICAN MASKS , Texas , 1980 , 280 pages, 313 plates, most in color plus photos and maps. Still an important resource for information on Mexican masks. paper covers, VG+ copy. ISBN:0292750749
Book ID#: J789 Price: 32 Add to cart

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(Mexican Masks) Luna Parra de Garcia Sainz, G. / Graciela Romandia de Cantu - EN EL MUNDO DE LA MASCARA, EL PAISAJE DE MEXICO , Fomento Cultural Banamex, Mexico , 1978 , 131 pages, many plates of masks of photos of them in use, all colour. Spanish text, bibliography. A good resource for Mexican masks. Fine copy in D.J. ISBN 9687009004
Book ID#: J10459 Price: 88 Add to cart

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(Mexican Masks) Martinez Penaloza, P. / Matinez Marin, C. / Servin Palencia, J. / Dahlgren-Jordan, B. ed - CUARENTA SIGLOS DE ARTE MEXICANO ARTE POPULAR , Editoriual Herrero Mexico , 1981 , Volume II, 128 pages, 157 plates in colour & b&w. Covers masks, handmade toys, painting in all media & lacquer. Text in Spanish. Very Good +copy. Cloth in red binding.
Book ID#: J10401 Price: 61 Add to cart

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(Mexican Masks) Orozco, Rebeca - DETRAS DE LA MASCARA , Mexico , 2006 , A 32 page paper book, written for children with beautiful photographs by Tachi. 15 Mexican masked dances are explained each with colour photos of the masks. Another photo of each mask with explaination is in the index. The masks are from the Muyaes/Ogazon collection in Mexico. Text in Spanish
Book ID#: J10766 Price: 35 Add to cart

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(Mexico) ARTESANIAS DE CHIAPAS - MEXICO , Chiapas , 1993 , 47 pages, 64 colour illus. covers textiles, jewelry, wood carving, toys, lacquer, pottery and metal work in Chiapas. Short texts on each in English and Spanish.paper copy with rubbed covers.
Book ID#: J10405 Price: 42 Add to cart

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(Mexico) ARTISANOS Y ARTESANIAS DEL ESTADO DE MEXICO , Del Gobierno Del Estado De Mexico , 1972 , 105 pages, many illus, all in colour. Covers the crafts of the indigenous peoples of the state of Mexico. Essay in Spanish. Very good + copy in dust jacket.
Book ID#: J10460 Price: 61 Add to cart

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(Mexico) EL QUEHACER DE UN PUEBLO ARTESANIAS DE MICHOACAN , Morelia, Michoacan, Casa de las Artesan�as , 1986 , 192 pages, many illus., mostly in colour. A beautifully printed book with papel picado to separate each section. It covers the huge variety of crafts from the state of Michoacan, Mexico and some of the artisans who create them. Text in Spanish. Heavy paper covers. Fine new copy. ISBN 9686670459
Book ID#: J10463 Price: 88 Add to cart

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(Mexico) FESTIVAL Coste�o DE LA DANZA , Video Serie Patrimonios de la Humanidad , ND circa 2001 , Tomo 22. A 2 hour video of regional and indigenous dances from the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. Filmed at the annual festival in Puerto Escondido. New in shrink wrap.
Book ID#: J10429 Price: 49 Add to cart

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(Mexico) LO EFIMERO Y ETERNO DEL ARTE POPULAR MEXICANO (vol 1&2) , M�xico, Fondo Editorial de la Pl�stica Mexicana , 1974(2nd ed) , Easily the most comprehensive survery, this is an amazing production of the art of the various indigenous populations in Mexico. 762 pages in 2 big volumes, 689 colour plates, bibliography. Vol 1: crafts in various media with extensive coverage of indigenous hand-woven & embroidered textiles & clothing. Vol 2: the rituals of Mexican life, some masked, all richly costumed, & the various crafts associated with them. Text in Spanish w/ contributions by Rafael Carrillo Azpeitia, Daniel Rub�n de la Borbolla, Irmgard W. Johnson, Gabriel Fern�ndez Ledesma and Fernando Horcasitas. Gift inscription on front end papers. Some edge wear and spines are darkened and a bit worn. Both books in the set are tight in their bindings and the insides are fine. SCARCE, TEXT IN SPANISH
Book ID#: J9017 Price: 240 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Berrin, Kathleen - ART OF THE HUICHOL INDIANS , S.F./Abrams , 1978 , 212 page, 100 illus. in color & b&w. An important resource. The embroidery, weaving, yarn painting, etc. Contributions by L. Bean, S. Vane, P. Das, S. Eger, P. Furst. A. Mandell, B. Myerhoff, K. Muller, P. Weigland. paper. Fine. ISBN: 0884010325
Book ID#: J10374 Price: 55 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Giordano, Carlos Romero - ARTE POPULAR MEXICANO , Mexico Desconocido , 2000 , 92 pages, loaded with all colour illus. Covers the current crafts made throughout Mexico and many of the people who make them. A small paper periodical format. FINE. ISBN 9686520961
Book ID#: J10406 Price: 27 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Harvey, Marian - CRAFTS OF MEXICO , Macmillan , 1973 , 248pg; about the crafts, the people who are well known for them; where they are made and how they are made; w/illustrations; pattern drawings and colour plates
Book ID#: J599 Price: 54 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Instituto de la Artesania Chiapaneca - EL FUEGO SOBRE LA TIERRA ALFARERAS DE AMATENANGO , N.D. , 36 pages, 30 photos, plus drawings. Covers the making of pottery in this indigenous village in highland Chiapas. Text in Spanish. paper.
Book ID#: J10404 Price: 26 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Macouzet, Juan / E.E. Figueroa / Magdial Perez - EL ARTE DE LA FAMILIA CASTILLO : ECOS DESDE UN VIENTRE DE BARRO (Echoes From the Womb of Clay) , Mexico , 2005 , 41 pages. 35 colour illus., one of them showing about 50 small pieces. A monograph about the ceramic work of the Castillo family from Izucar de Matamoros, Puebla. They are famed for their intricate and colourful Arboles de Vida as well as other figures. Text in English and Spanish. Oblong with paper covers, new copy.
Book ID#: J10719 Price: 30 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Mendez, Leopoldo and Mariana Yampolsky - LO EFIMERO Y ETERNO DEL ARTE POPULAR MEXICANO , M�xico, Fondo Editorial de la Pl�stica Mexicana , 1974 , Easily the most comprehensive survery, this is an amazing production of the art of the various indigenous populations in Mexico. 762 pages in 2 big volumes, 689 colour plates, bibliography. Vol 1: crafts in various media with extensive coverage of indigenous hand-woven & embroidered textiles & clothing. Vol 2: the rituals of Mexican life, some masked, all richly costumed, & the various crafts associated with them. Text in Spanish w/ contributions by Rafael Carrillo Azpeitia, Daniel Rub�n de la Borbolla, Irmgard W. Johnson, Gabriel Fern�ndez Ledesma and Fernando Horcasitas. SCARCE. both volumes are very good in tight boards bindings as issued, a bit of edge wear.
Book ID#: J10447 Price: 325 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Olivera, Mercedes - LAS DANZAS Y FIESTAS DE CHIAPAS , Fonadan , 1974 , VOLUME I in the series, CATALOGO NACIONAL DE DANZAS. 187 pages, a complete listing of all the fiestas. Describes every dance in detail and includes b&w photographs and drawings. Spanish text. Paper cover, very good condition
Book ID#: J10452 Price: 108 Add to cart

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(Mexico) Santana, Graciela - POESIA EN DESENO: ARTESANIA TEXTIL MAZAHUA Y OTOMI , Mexico , 1978 2nd ed. , 116 pages, 60 pieces illus. in b&w. A catalogue of Otomi and Mazahua embroidery design styles. Very good + paper copy.
Book ID#: J10453 Price: 78 Add to cart

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