The Tlingit Indians of the Northwest Coast carved interior house posts, portal entrances and free standing totem poles with crests of animals, sea creatures, birds, and legendary and human figures, successfully combining symbolism and realism. This book examines the social and artistic relevance of the Tlingit carvings and relates many of the fascinating North American Indian legends upon which some of the carvings are based.
Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada, 2003, Cloth/Laminated Boards, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 0888395280

Inventory #15787

Price: £ 25.00 GBP ($ 39.50 approx. - € 30.20 approx.)

This book documents and critically analyzes the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, the author argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement's success - not only did it allow eugenicists to identify the people with superior and inferior hereditary traits, but it helped publicize and lend scientific authority to eugenicists' racial theories.The author further argues for a strong connection between the racial-type photographs that eugenicists created and the photographic images produced by nineteenth-century anthropologists and prison authorities, and that the photographic works of contemporary liberal anthropologists played a significant role in the Eugenics Movement's downfall.Besides adding to our knowledge of photography's crucial role in helping to authorize and implement some of the most controversial social policies of modern times, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of racism. Most accounts of eugenics have been written by history of science scholars, with an emphasis on the history of science and medicine. In contrast, "Picture Imperfect" looks at eugenics from the standpoint of its most significant cultural data - racial-type photography, investigating the techniques, media forms, and styles of photography used by eugenicists, and relating these to their racial theories and their social policies and goals.Indeed, the visual archive was crucially constitutive of eugenic racial science because it helped make many of its concepts appear both intuitive as well as scientifically legitimate. Discussion of the history of the eugenics movement encompasses a wide narrative, including Nazi history, US politics, criminology and prison studies, and propaganda.286pp.
Sussex Academic Press, 2008, Cloth/Laminated Boards, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9781845192396

Inventory #17969

Price: £ 50.00 GBP ($ 79.00 approx. - € 60.40 approx.)

Crabtree Publishing Company, 2008, Cloth/Laminated Boards, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 9780778735021

Inventory #19106

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.85 approx. - € 9.06 approx.)

The Clark Field Collection at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is recognized as one of the most comprehensive basketry collections in North America.This is the first time Philbrook has published information on the collection in its entirety. Illustrated with numerous photographs, many in colour, and several colour maps. Includes glossary and lengthy listing of references cited. 246pp.
Philbrook Museum of Art, The, 2001, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Heavy Item Postage Quote. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

ISBN: 0866590234

Inventory #15977

Price: £ 30.00 GBP ($ 47.40 approx. - € 36.24 approx.)

This work provides a basic introduction to the cultures and spiritual teachings of four Native American nations: Delaware, Cherokee, Sioux, Navajo; and also discusses such critical issues as the pan-national spiritual movements and the environment. N.B. Slight mark to front cover. 420pp.
Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Reprint. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9780872208612

Inventory #23836

Price: £ 12.50 GBP ($ 19.75 approx. - € 15.10 approx.)