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24 volumes: A complete run of Vols. I through VII, lacking only Vol. I, Nos. 1, 3 & 4, and Vol. II, No. 1. Illustrated with photographs and drawings; some fold-out plates. Original printed wraps. Articles on nearly all Native American tribes in North, Central and South America. Fine condition. Also included are Monographs Nos. 36 (Aims and Objects of the Museum of the American Indian); 43 (List of Publications, as of March, 1927); and 48 (Coffin, Archeological Exploration of a Rock Shelter in Brewster County, Texas).
Indian Notes
NY: Heye Foundation, 1924-1930.
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Thirtieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology ... 1908-1909: 30th Annual Report
(BAE)
Washington: GPO, 1915.
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Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology...., 11th
(BAE) Powell, J. W., director
Washington: GPO, 1894.
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8vo. First edition. 223pp. Original maroon cloth, gilt spine and upper board embossed in blind. Illustrated with photographs. Index. Notes. A fine, bright copy. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped. It is chipped along the top and the bottom and rubbed at the folds else very good. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to Col. Proctor and with his business card laid-in. The story of the Ghost Dance religion, and the white man's campaign to destroy it.
Wavoka, The Indian Messiah
Bailey, Paul
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, (1957).
Price: $150.00
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Gramatica Raramuri
Brambila, David, SJ
Mexico, DF: Editorial Buena Prensa, 1952.
Price: $500.00
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Fighting Indian Warriors: True Tales of the Wild Frontiers
Brininstool, E. A.
Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1953.
Price: $60.00
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4to. 361pp. Illustrated with line drawings; two large folding maps in rear pocket; vocabulary tables. Two works bound as one as Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume I., under the general editorship of J. W. Powell Original black cloth boards, rebacked, with the original backstrip laid on. The spine gilt has dulled; one of the folding maps has a neat reinforcement on one of the folds; else this is a very good copy.
Tribes of the Extreme Northwest; and Tribes of Western Washington and North western Oregon
Dall, W. H., and Geo. Gibbs
Washington: GPO, 1877.
Price: $450.00
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Oblong 4to. 160pp. Photographs by Helga Teiwes-French. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Original blue cloth blocked with titles in silver; grey endpapers. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped; it is lightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. Warmly inscribed on the half-title by the author: "Something very Special -- for my special people ... " Important resource on Spanish Colonial art. Later reprinted by the University of New Mexico in a different format, copies of this first printing by the UofA are becoming hard to find.
Mexican Folk Retablos (Signed)
Giffords, Gloria Kay
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1974).
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Folio. 176 (ii)pp. Folio. Exhibition catalogue of the Antes Kachina collection, showing 412 kachinas in color and black & white. along with other explanatory photographs, many of which show the Hopi kachina dancers. Text in German. Stiff wraps printed in color. A fine copy.
Kachina-Figuren Der Pueblo-Indianer Nordamerokas Aus Der Studeinsammlung Horst Antes
Haberland, Wolfgang; Horst Antes
Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum, (1980).
Price: $125.00
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Small 4to. (xx), 289pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and maps. Original beige cloth, gilt titles. Index. Bibliography, A fine, bright copy. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped; it is fine as well. Possibly the most complete study to date of the folk architecture of a tribal society.
Navajo Architecture: Forms, History, Distributions
Jett, Stephen C., and Virginia E. Spencer
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1981).
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8vo. 491pp. followed by the Supplement bringing the total pagination to 511. The Supplement contains three pieces by Charles Fenno Hoffman: "The Dead Clearing:", "The Last Arrow" and "Indian Parents at their Child's Grave". Eight plates, including the three plates in the supplementary material and the 5 called for by Howes. Original sheep. Spine with simple gilt rules, red leather lettering piece, gilt. Typical foxing and some staining else a very good copy. As seems to be usual with this edition, though not mentioned by either Howes nor Sabin, bound without pp. 485-488. Howes P-622. Sabin 65719.
Incidents of Border Life, Illustrative of the Times and Condition of the First Settlements in Parts of the Middle and Western States: Comprising Narratives of Strange and Thrilling Adventure--Accounts of Battles--Skirmishes and Personal Encounters with the Indians-- Descriptions of their Manners, Customs, Modes of Warfare, Treatment of Prisoners &c. &c.--also, the History of Several Rem
Pritts, Joseph
Chambersburg, PA: J. Pritts, 1839.
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8-1/2 by 11 inches. xiii, 300 leaves of typescript printed on one side only. Black cloth, gilt titles. Dr. Turrell's unpublished dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Department of Romance Languages, University of Arizona, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for her doctorate in French. Signed by the author on the statement page. Her incisive view on Artaud, including his visit to the Tarahumara Indians in the 1930's. As Silviana Santiago points out, Dr. Rodack, in this thesis, was the first to decode Artaud's letter of February, 1936, to Dr. Allendy as a combination of two threes, one against the grain, and which form the Seal of Solomon. A fine copy. In French. Laid-in is a 20 page offset entitled Cibola Revisited, by Madeleins Turrell Rodack, signed by her on the first page, and with an autograph note, signed, and dated 1987.
Antonin Artaud et la Vision du Mexique (Signed)
Rodack, Madeleine Turrell
Tucson: Unpublished dissertation, 1974.
Price: $750.00
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4to. xvi,252pp. Illustrated with 40 plates in full color, 25 line drawings, and one map. Original brick-colored cloth spine and tan-colored cloth sides, block in black with titles and designs. Patterned endpapers. Bibliography. Designed by Samuel T. Farquar and A. R. Tommasini, and with the color plates printed from rubber blocks cut by hand by Jean Goodwin and Arthur Ames. Spine lightly sunned else a fine copy. In original slipcase of blue cloth with printed spine label, the case worn at the edges else very good. And with the original prospectus for the edition laid in.
Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians: Their Evolution, Fabrication, and Significance in the Prayer Drama
Roediger, Virginia More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.
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Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History
Seler, Eduard, et al.
Washington: GPO, 1904.
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History of the Catholic Missions among the Indian Tribes of the United States, 1529-1854
Shea, John Gilmary
NY: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1855.
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8vo. xxi,(i),363,(i)pp. followed by Collotype Figures 29-92 and their descriptions. With nine plates in Serigraph by Louie Ewing. Reports of the Awatovi Expedition, Report No. 5. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, XXXVII. Recent binding of half leather decorated in blind, leather lettering piece, gilt, blue cloth boards, taupe end papers. Old library stamp on the reverse of the title page, the two folding serigraphs plates folded improperly at one time with some creasing, occasional light pencil parks, else a near fine copy. Errata leaf present after the title.
Kiva Mural Decorations at Awatovi and Kawaika-a: With a Survey of Other Wall Paintings in the Pueblo Southwest
Smith, Watson
Cambridge, MA: Published by the Museum, 1952.
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The Indian Tribes of North America
Swanton, John R.
Washington: GPO, 1952.
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12mo. (x),165pp. Fourteen full page ilustrations by Angel de Cora. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow. Pp.15-16 (the former a blank, the latter a half-title) have a dark offset from a newspaper clipping. That clipping is now in a mylar sleeve and laid in at the front of the book. It is a photograph and caption from the Washngton, D.C., Evening Star of September 17, 1925. The photograph is a picture of the author, in full SIoux regalia, "Princess Zitkala-Sa of the Sioux Tribe", on the occasion of her lecture on social questions facing Indian women,. The clipping is folded once. This book is signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing and soil, bookplate of former owner, else a very good copy.
Old Indian Legends Retold by Zitkala-Sa (Signed)
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1901.
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