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Region: Americas

Detailed instructional booklet on how to build a large canoe using traditional tribal methods.  Illustrated.  Paperback.  46 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 5066

Region: Italy

A card portfolio containing twelve large b&w photographs of the exterior and interior of the C12th cathedral basilica on the island of Torcello in the Venetian lagoon accompanied by an eight-page introductory essay (in English).  Housed in a stiff card portfolio.

Region: Americas

A lengthy report on the study conducted by exploratory expeditions to Alaska in 1949 where ethnological research, including contact with elder indigenous peoples, is combined with small scale archaeological collection of tools and ornaments.

Region: Scandinavia

Eight real photograph souvenir cards from this museum of rural buildings - old farmhouses, barns, windmills. a watermill, a smithy, etc.  In a card folder with captions in English and Danish.  Good clean condition.  Cat No N176

Region: Britain - Midlands

In addition to chapters on the geology, flora and fauna of the district, this volume also includes sections on hedgerows and woodlands with references to the relict remnants of the ancient Forest of Arden, as well as a short chapter on the pre-Norman archaeology of  the area.

Region: Britain - Wales

The history, the structure and the current state of this large Norman motte-and-bailey castle near Tenby built in C11th and still substantially intact.  The text is accompanied by three b&w plates and many diagrams including a large fold-out site plan.  Paperback.  36 pages.

Region: Britain - Wales

A description of the Bronze Age bucket, unique in Britain, found in a peat bog in North Wales in 1826, then subsequently used for many years as a waste paper receptacle.  Booklet.  8 pages.  Illustrated with four b&w plates.  Good condition.  Cat No 3379

Region: Egypt

Catalogue of an exhibition of early Christian textiles from Egypt dating from the 2nd - 9th centuries AD.  Illustrated with 16 black-and-white plates.  Introductory text in Dutch.  Paperback.  24 pages.  Apparently from Sotheby's archive and bears their stamp.

Region: Americas

A photo album of 42 colour and b&w plates depicting the finest Mayan terracottas from the National Museum and private collections.  Introductory essay in English, plate captions in English, German, French and Spanish.  Original UK edition.  Hardback in a slightly grubby dustwra

Region: Africa

Portfolio of 50 large loose high quality colour photographs of Congolese wooden figure carvings and ceremonial masks.  Accompanying is a twenty-eight page booklet with an introductory essay on the topic, a map of the Congo basin indicating tribe locations and a detailed description of the su