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Bone and Horn Carving: A Pictorial History
'Bone and Horn Carving: A Pictorial History' is the correct title (Amazon's title is nonsense).
'Art Tribal' 1998 - Four Issues
Four issues of ‘Art Tribal’ the Bulletin of the Barbier Mueller Museum in Geneva.
Living Traditions: Continuity and Change, Past and Present
Published to complement a special exhibition at the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology which juxtaposed recent acquisitions with historical material on the museum's collection.
Chukchi and Eskimo Art in the Collection of the Zagorsk History and Art Museum
An extensive catalogue depicting ivory carvings and engravings as well as reindeer skin embroideries and appliqués, produced in traditional fashion by the arctic Chukchi indigenous peoples of North Eastern Siberia.
Studies in Primitive Looms
A thorough treatise on the evolution of weaving from primitive horizontal looms through vertical, beam, heddle, and treadle looms, to the large frame looms found in Northern Europe with examples featured and illustrated from as widely as the Ainu of Japan, Mexico, Egypt, India, Sierra Leone Malay
World on a Glass Plate
Reproductions of forty of the Museum's C19th ethnographic photographs from all corners of the globe featuring tribal individuals and their cultures most of which are now substantially lost. Paperback. 42 pages. Very good clean condition. Cat No 4283
Food and Drink and Travelling Acessories: Essays in Honour of Gösta Berg
Fourteen experts in ethnological food research throw new light on the social and economic aspects of the history of food and drink and the accessories used in its preparation and consumption.
Observers of Man: A Selection of Photographs form the Collection of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Catalogue of an exhibition of rare c19th photographs taken by anthropologists and missionaries documenting tribes and customs that no longer exist.
Gosudarstvennyi Muzei Etnografii Narodov SSSR (Guide to the National Ethnographic Museum)
Attractive photographic guide to the collections of the Ethnographic Museum Leningrad. 171 plates in colour and b&w. Text in Russian. Hardback. New condition. Cat No 2086
Traditional Bhutanese Textiles
An album of textiles - scarves, belts, clothes, ponchos - illustrated in large colour photographs. Introductory chapter. 154 pages. Paperback. Good clean condition. Cat No 1870.