A large format album of colour illustrations of traditional Navajo sand paintings with accompanying text describing their history, technique, symbolism and, in recent times, transition to dry-painting as a source of income.

Northern Sumatra is home to the Batak ethnic group which, in turn, is sub-divided into individual tribal groups each with their own language and cultural identity.

Collected by Prof Ruhe whilst lecturing at the University of Adelaide in 1965, this illustrated catalogue describes 42 aboriginal paintings with precise information on collecting site, artist (if known), tribe, size, colour and a detailed description of the subject matter and its symbolic meaning

This book documents a remarkable collection of sixty-six outstanding Pueblo and Navajo textiles donated to the Peabody Museum in the 1980s by William Claflin, Jr., a prominent Boston businessman and patron of Southwestern archaeology.

An essay on the history of Indonesian resist dyed Batik, the process of its manufacture, and the tools used, precedes an illustrated catalogue of 32 examples each described in terms of type of cloth, process employed, and patterns produced.

Commencing with a discussion of the immigrant spread of palaeo-indians into North America and their pre-ceramic cultures, the author then discusses settlement patterns burial practices, artefacts and petroglyphs of the tribes of the Maritimes provinces and the Mi'kmaq in particular, with further

The Kogi Indians of the Sierra Nevada of northern Colombia have preserved much of their cultural heritage, notwithstanding the onslaught of outside influences.

A very detailed and sensitive description of the history and culture of the Colorado tribes by a local author.  Beginning with the ancient pueblo ruins of the Anasazi and continuing with the Sinagua, the Navajo, the Apache, and the Paiute in terms of their past and their present lifestyle.

Using the archived notebooks and sketches undertaken by the Rev Myron Eells recording the life and culture of Northwest Coast Indian tribes in the 1870's,  the editors re-examine the subsistence, buildings, clothing, furniture, vessels, personal adornment, implements, transportation, games.

This massive exhibition catalogue of one of the world’s premier collections of the art of Oceania.  presents a broad and detailed overview of traditional art from Sumatra to New Zealand and across the whole of Melanesia and Micronesia.