Item BBR99 - $29

The Last of the Nuba (1974)

Publisher: Harper & Row, New York ; Author(s): Riefenstahl, Leni ; Hard Cover with DJ : 208 pages 124 photiographs in color and 14 photographs in black and white, 3 maps, illustrated end-papers, glossary and bibliography ; English ; ISBN: 9780060135492 / 0060135492

Leni Riefenstahl's photographs of the daily lives, rituals and culture of the Mesakin and Korongo Nuba of the Kordofan in the Sudan with whom she lived off and on for ten years. Riefenstahl remained a very controversial figure until the end of her life due to her involvement as a documentary filmmaker for the Nazi's. Later in her life she turned to photography and her artistry in that field cannot be denied as can be seen in the beautiful full-page color photographs in this book. The book is in excellent condition, but there is wear and some tears at the top of the DJ.

Item BBR98 - $63

The Art of Greenland: Sculpture Crafts Painting (1979)

Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979 ; Author(s): Kaalund, Bodil ; Translated by Kenneth Tindall. Numerous illustrations in color & in black and white ; Hard Cover with DJ : 414 pages ; English (ISBN: 0520048407 / 0-520-04840-7)

This book is the first work to provide a comprehensive description of the art of Greenland from the earliest times to the present. That alone makes it demand our attention. But even more, it is a fascinating story, written by an intelligent and shrewd observer with a deep insight into Greenlandic culture and a thorough understanding of the conditions under which Greenlandic art had developed. In addition to pictoral art, all forms of artistic manifestation in Greenlandic society is considered. This book is in very good condition, but there is minor wear and a couple of small tears in the DJ at the folds.

Item BBR97 - $21

Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo (1982)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1982 ; Author(s): Fitzhugh, William W.; Kaplan, Susan A.; Collins, Henry B.; Ager, Thomas; Ray, Dorothy Jean, Frederick, Saradell Ard ; Hard Cover : 295 pages with numerous b/w illustrations ; English ; (ISBN: 087474430X / 0-87474-430-X)

In addition to presenting a visual ethnography of the Bering Sea Eskimo, this book places their life in a regional and chronological framework. Contacts and influences from the Bering Strait and from North Alaska and Siberia are discussed, as are those with Indians to the east and Aleuts to the South. Features of European contact are everywhere noted. The significance of these contacts - economic, artistic, religious, and otherwise - is seen also in the perspective of time by the use of archaeological materials touching upon the prehistoric roots of Bering Sea Eskimo culture and post-Nelson artifacts. This book is missing the DJ and the cover is plain white, so an internal page is shown in place of the cover at the left. The book is in very good condition.

Item BBR74 - $4

American Folklore and Legend

Hard Cover , Reader's Digest Children's Book ; 1978 ; 448 pages ; English ; ISBN: 0895770458

This hard cover book is a beautifully illustrated children's book about American Folklore and Legend. Chapters include: In Search of Cibola, The Saltwater Bandits, The Spirit of '76, The Legendary Backwoodsman, Riverboat Roarers, Arkansas to the Alamo, Gold, When Cotton Was King, The Wild West, The Melting Pot, The Sky's The Limit and more. Tight binding, pages in very good condition, very light shelf wear and corner bumps. Wonderful reading.

Item BBR96 - $175

Pearls and Savages. Adventures in the Air, on Land and Sea in New Guinea (1981)

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons,, New York ; Author(s): Hurley, Frank ; Hard Cover with DJ : 414 pages ; English

Classic ethnographic photographs of New Guinea natives. This amazing publication is the result of an expedition Captain Hurley made to New Guinea , traveling by land, sea and air, where aviation developed quickly after WWI, mainly to service the gold-fields. His observations and experiences among the stone-age natives there are graphically recorded in word and picture. There are 82 outstanding mono photographs, the majority are full page plates. Green hard covers with gilt front and spine titles This fabulous book is probably a 1981 fascimilie reproduction by JAC Press (Hong Kong) of the 1924 first edition of the Putnam (New York) publication. There is no information regarding the reprint and there is a Bali Corporation price sticker on the front cover. This book is in excellent condition except for light edge wear of the DJ.

Item BBR92 - $34

Asmat Images from the Collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress (1985)

Publisher: Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress ; Author(s): Schneebaum, Tobias ; Paper Bound : 198 pages ; English and Indonesian ; ISBN: 0918728592 / 0-918728-59-2

The Asmat live in an alluvial swamp in the south of Irian Jaya, the western half of the island of Papua New Guinea. Through this swamp flows a complex matrix of rivers and streams that floods the land in times of highest tides. Within this environment, remarkable ritual objects were developed by the people that powerfully expressed their culture which, in certain areas, required head hunting and cannibalism to placate ancestral spirits. This book is about the peoples and artifacts found in this region. This book is in new condition.

Item BJO01 - $47

Across Australia: Volume II

Publisher: Macmillan and Co., London, 1912 ; Author(s): Sir Baldwin Spencer & Francis James Gillen ; Hard Cover : 260 pages ; English

This hard cover book is the 1912 second edition of the second volume of a two book set with pages between 255 and 515. Hard cover and loaded with illustrations of Aborigines and Aboriginal artifacts. There are also some maps. The authors travelled throughout Central Australia and documented everything that they saw related to the Aboriginal culture. This book is very rare. I could only find one other copy for sale while doing an internet search. The binding is fairly good for such an old book. There is some wear in the cloth covering at the edge of the spine. There is a slight bow to the boards because of shelf storage. Volume II is really great by itself and it doesn't need Volume I.

Item BBR89 - $17(2 copies)

Ancestral Connections: Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge ( ISBN: 0226538664 )

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press ; 1992 ; Author(s): Morphy, Howard ; Soft Cover : 329 pages ; English

Ancestral Connections unlocks the inner meaning of Australian Aboriginal bark paintings. Drawing on more than ten years of fieldwork among the Yolngu, an Aboriginal people from Northeast Arnhem Land and applying both anthropological and art historical methods, Howard Morphy explores systematically the graphic representation of traditional knowledge in Yolngu art. He also charts the role that art has played in Aboriginal society both present and past. The rich symbolism of Yolngu art links the Yolngu directly with the "Dreaming," the time of world-creation that continues as the spiritual dimension of the present. The binding is tight. The pages are clean. Excellent condition except for a light crease at bottom right of front cover.

Item BBR16 - $12

Tony Tuckson ( ISBN: 0947131221 )

Publisher: Craftsman House, Australia (December 1989) ; Author(s): Daniel Thomas, Renée Free, Geoffrey Legge ; Hard Cover with DJ : 188 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Heavy book (1.8kg) ; English

Tony Tuckson is well known for his sponsorship of Australian Aboriginal art. He was in a key museum position and was well known for his efforts on behalf of the Aboriginals. His own paintings are derivitives of the School of Paris, but he is collected in Australia. This book is loaded with B&W and color images of Tuckson's paintings. Ed Ruhe's estate owned a painting by Tony Tuckson. It was ultimately sold by a Sydney dealer for $10,000. This book is very difficult to find. There are no markings inside. It is in almost new condition except that the DJ has some wear around the top edges from handling/storage and a few stains on the rear DJ surface.

Item BBR70 - $12

'Monty' The Biography of C. P. Mountford ( ISBN: 0709137567 )

Publisher: Robert Hale & Company (1973) ; Author(s): Max Lamshed ; Hard Cover with DJ : 222 pages with b/w illustrations ; English

'Monty' tells the story of one of Australia's best-known anthropologists: Charles Pearcy Mountford. This remarkable man was born in 1890 in the Outback settlement at Hallett. Without academic training, he became an authority on Aborigines and published many articles and photographs throughout his life. He earned a Diploma in Anthropology at Cambridge and his Masters Degree from the University of Adelaide. Both of these degrees were earned late in life. Monty has always been a controversial figure, a man of wit, courage and resolution. Despite initial disadvantages, he became one of the world's leading authorities on the culture of the Australian Aborigines. This book is fascinating reading and it has many b&w photographs from Monty's archival materials. This book is in excellent condition. However, the DJ has a tear on the back near the spine as shown in the photo. This can easily be taped, but I will let you do that. This book is difficult to find in any condition.

Item BBR88 - $9

Aboriginal Art (World of Art)

Publisher: Thames & Hudson (1993) ; Author(s): Caruana, Wally ; Soft Cover ; 216 pages ; 187 illustrations (31 in color) ; English ; ISBN: 0500202648 / 9780500202647

Aboriginal artists today practise in the world's longest continuous tradition of art - and perhaps the last to be generally recognized. Widely sought after, Aboriginal art has now taken its place in the collections of the great museums and galleries. This is the first concise survey of the full range of the works of Australia's indigenous artists from all parts of the continent: from Arnhem Land and the desert, the Kimberly and northern Queensland, to modern towns and cities. Building on traditions that stretch back at least fifty millennia, these artist have worked in a variety of contexts, from the sacred and secret realm of ceremony to more public spheres, and in media that that includes painting, sculpture, engraving, constructions, weaving, photography, printmaking and textile design. This book is in almost new condition.

Item BBR90 - $9

The Songlines

Publisher: Butler and Tanner Ltd. (1988) ; Author(s): Chatwin, Bruce; Hard Cover with DJ ; 293 pages ; English ; ( ISBN: 0224024523 )

This celebrated author's most famous book, his second "autobiografictional " travelogue, based on his several trips to Australia. Although set among the Aboriginal camps of Central Australia, the book nevertheless asks and tries to answer the question of questions: why is man the most restless and dissatisfied animal on earth? What is the source of this restlessness? Could it be that we came into being because were a species which had to migrate with the seasons? Why do wandering peoples conceive of the world as perfect whereas the sedentary ones are forever trying to change it? Songlines are what the Europeans call the labyrinth of invisible pathways that meander all over Australia.To Aborigines, they are the 'Footprints of the Ancestors' or the 'Way of the Law'. Like new condition, except for very light wear to edge of .DJ from shelf storage. This is the English version of this book and it is very difficult to find in the USA.

Item BBR95 - $6

Australia's Kakadu Man

Publisher: Resource Managers, Darwin (1986) ; Author(s): Neidjie, Bill; Davis, Stephen;Fox, Allan ; Hard Cover with DJ ; 96 pages ; English ; (ISBN: 0958945802 / 0-9589458-0-2 )

Very beautiful pictures of the aborigines and Australian country. A plea by the author for the preservation of the land. Photographic essay of the life, homelands and poeple of the Australian Aboriginals, by Bill Neidjie, Stephen Davis and Allan Fox. A very atmospheric look at the life of modern aboriginals, includes poetry, photos and commentary. Excellent condition but DJ has wear from handling and storage.

Item BBR54 - $5

Five Commonwealth Government brochures about Aboriginal peoples from 5 different states: Northern Territory, Tasmania, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria ( ISBNs: 0644101520 , 0644242779 , 06421587033 )

These brochures were produced in co-operation by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in Canberra. All are dated approximately 1992. Three have ISBN numbers and two do not. Each document has between 14 and 27 internal pages, each loaded with information about the indigenous peoples of the 5 Australian States with lots of colored photos of Aboriginal artifacts, contemporary handicrafts and the Aboriginal peoples themselves. All are in very good condition except for the Tasmania brochure which has minor signs of moisture damage on cover only.

Item BBR55 - $5

Five Commonwealth Government brochures about Aboriginal Culture and Society ( ISBNs: 0644111690 , 0642161658 , 0642154074 , 0644103019 , 0644099860 )

These brochures were produced in co-operation by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in Canberra. All are dated approximately 1992. Each brochure has 15-25 pages loaded with information and colored photos of specified cultural and society information: Hunting and Gathering, Fibrecrafts, Rock Art, Bush Food, Carving and Sculpture. All are in very good condition except for the Carving and Sculpture brochure which has some soiling on the cover and some creasing on the bottom of the cover and pages and a tiny tear at the bottom of this brochure's cover.

Item BBR12 - $2 (2 copies are available)

Modern Art - Ancient Icon: a Gallery of Dreamings From Aboriginal Australia ( ISBN: 0646080520 )

Author: Ebes, Hank ; Publisher: The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreaming, Alice Springs, Australia ; Soft Cover ; 1992 ; 57 pages ; English

This booklet is a catalogue presented by the Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings for an exhibition that was presented by the World Bank Art Society at a gallery in Washington D.C. in 1992. Illustrated throughout with both B&W and full color art on glossy pages, depicting art of the Western Desert, Art of Arnhem Land & Mosaics that you can read. There is also a listing of artists and a glossary with symbols. Excellent condition.

Item BBR83 - $15

The Art of the South Sea Islands, Including Australia and New Zealand ( 1962 )

Publisher: Crown Publishers., New York ; Author(s): Alfred Buehler ; Terry Barrow ; Charles P. Mountford ; Hard Cover with DJ : 250 pages ; English

This wonderful book is one of several volumes in the " Art of the World " series, published in 1962. Really great information about art from cultures in the South Seas, including Polynesia, Micronesia, Maori, Australia and New Zealand. The full color illustrations are photographic plates that are pasted onto the pages. This is one of the better books available on this website. The book is in very good condition. The DJ is damaged with small tears, wrinkles, etc., but it is intact. Read pages from this book on Questia.

Item BTB09 - $10

Arts and Crafts of Indonesia ( 1994 )

ISBN 081180481X / 9780811804813 / 0-8118-0481-X

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc ; Author(s): Anne Richter, John Storey; Soft Cover : 160 pages ; English

This wonderful soft cover book has more than 150 color photos and informative text about Indonesian artisans and their crafts: textiles, wood and horn carvings, ceramics, metalware, masks and puppets. This book is in almost new condition. There is a small crease on the bottom of the back cover.

Item BBR82 - $9

Made in the South Pacific: Arts of the Sea People

Publisher: Dutton Childrens Books, New York, New York, U.S.A. (1979) ; Author(s): Price, Christine ; First Edition (stated) ;Hard Cover with DJ : 134 pages ; English (ISBN: 0525343970 / 0-525-34397-0)

The seafaring people of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia created a rich art heritage that lasted into the nineteenth century. Canoes were works of art in themselves, with dazzling shell inlay and carved prows. Decorations of everyday objects delighted the people, and they produced the strikingly painted bark cloth called tapa and the elaborate body adornment called tatu (tatoo). Master artists carved handsome ancestor boards, ceremonial clubs, and exquisite food bowls. Nice book with lots of B&W illustrations. DJ has shelf wear and edge tears, but the book is in very good condition.

Item BBR84 - $9

Oceanic Art (World of Art)

Publisher: Thames & Hudson (May 1995) ; Author(s): Thomas, Nicholas; Soft Cover ; 216 pages ; 182 illustrations (26 in color) ; English ; (ISBN: # 0500202818 )

Nicholas Thomas, in this survey, portrays the meaning and significance of art for the people of the Pacific. While each region has certain art forms and practices that characterize it - the ancestral carvings of Maori and Sepik ceremonial houses; rituals of exchange and warfare in the Soloman Islands; body art in Polynesia; and women's art forms, such as barkcloth - Oceanic art as a whole is continually being shaped by cross-cultural stimuli within the Pacific and beyond, combining local motifs and materials with new styles and techniques. The illustrations cover the works that evoke the most deep-rooted customs to those which address contemporary political issues. Like new condition.

Item BBR75 - $18

Sex, Culture, And Myth ( First Edition, 1962 )

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York ; Author(s): Malinowski, Bronislaw ; Hard Cover with DJ : 346 pages ; English

Brilliant and significant essays, previously uncollected, by the foremost pioneer in the science of human behavior. Malinnowski's sensitive and astute interpretations of the role of sex and of religion - the needs of man's body and man's spirit - are unsurpassed. Now, some of the most important work of this pioneer of modern anthropology is brought together for the first time in book form. This book moves from the question of sex to other social phenomena, including the institution of family and the relationship of kinship and myth and totem, dogma and religion. The binding is tight. The pages are clean, but the DJ has a lot of wear and tear.