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Theory & Practice: Ethnography

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

Theory & Practice: Folk Art

An unusual survey of examples where fossils have been incorporated into ancient jewelley or depicted in modern advertising.

Theory & Practice: Technique

Probably the earliest practical guide to the technique of percussion flaking of a flint using a hammer stone to produce a usable arrow head as employed by the hunters of the Stone Age.  Detailed description of the stages involved with many useful diagrams.  Paerback.  40 pages.&nbs

Region: Americas

Published to accompany an exhibition of the Museum's large collection of traditional and historic hand-made baskets from North and South American tribal groups.    Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w.  Includes a species list of plant fibres used in basket production

Region: Americas

Description of the village utensils used in spinning, weaving, carrying, ploughsing and cheese making plus traditional musical instruments. Paperback.  30 pages.  Illustrated.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3012

Region: Arctic

A very extensive catalogue of artefacts collected from Alaskan eskimos during British expeditions made in the 1820's and 1830's preceded by a substantial essay outlining the history of explorations in the region with details of the collecting expeditions and those who led them.

Region: Arctic

Treatise on indigenous embroideries employing hair from moose, reindeer, caribou, horse and porcupine quill as practiced by North Americanplains indians, and native peoples of Alaska, Aleutian, Sakhalin and Siberia. Paperback. 84 pages. 16 b&w plates. Bibliography. New condition.

Region: Australasia/Pacific

Detailed survey of tools, weapons and domestic crafts of what are, in effect, stone age societies in New Guinea. 60 pages plus 16 b&w plates showing men and women manufacturing arrows, axes and bags. Small inscription otherwise good clean condition. Cat No 1100.