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Tribal Art Books

  • Brodzky, Anne Trueblood et al.
    Stones, bones and skin: ritual and shamanic Art.
    Toronto: The Society for Art Publications, 1977
  • Schuster, Carl and Edmund Carpenter.
    Patterns that Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art.
    New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996
  • Vandenbroeck, Paul.
    Azetta: L'art des femmes berberes.
    Amsterdam: Ludion Gand and Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 2000

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African Art Books

  • Ezio Bassani.
    Zagourski: Lost Africa.
    Milan: Skira, 2001
  • Coquet, Michele.
    Textiles Africains.
    Paris: Adam Biro, 1993
  • Ginzberg, Marc.
    African Forms.
    Milan: Skira, 2000
  • Meurant, Georges.
    Shoowa Design: African Textiles from the Kingdom of Kuba.
    London: Thames and Hudson, 1986
  • Meurant, Georges and Robert Farris Thompson.
    Mbuti Design: Paintings by Pygmy Women of the Ituri Forest.
    London: Thames and Hudson, 1996
  • Phillips, Tom (ed).
    Africa: The Art of a Continent.
    London; Munich: Royal Academy of Art and Prestel Verlag, 1995
  • Reswick, Irtraud.
    Traditional Textiles of Tunisia and Related North African Weavings.
    Los Angeles: Craft and Fold Art Mueum, 1985
  • Sieber, Roy.
    African Furniture and Household Objects.
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980
  • Sieber, Roy.
    African Textiles and Decorative Arts.
    New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1972
  • Schaedler, Karl-Ferdinand.
    Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara.
    Munich: Panterra Verlag, 1987
  • Schildkrout, Enid and Curtis Keim.
    African Reflections: Art from Northeastern Zaire.
    New York: American Museum of Natural History and University of Washington Press, 1990
  • Trowell, Margaret.
    African Design.
    London: Faber and Faber, 1960

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Pre-Columbian Art Books

  • Braun, Barbara.
    Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American Sources of Modern Art.
    New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993
  • Coe, Michael D.
    The Jaquar's Chldren: Pre-Classic Central Mexico.
    New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1965
  • Coe, Michael D. & Kerr, Justin.
    The Art of the Maya Scribe.
    New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc. 1997
  • Freidel, David Linda Schele and Joy Parker.
    Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path.
    New York: William Morrow, 1993
  • Gay, Robin & Carlo.
    Chontal, Ancient Stone Sculpture from Guerrero Mexico.
    Geneva: Balsas, 2001
  • Miller, Mary et al.
    Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya
    .
    Fine Arts Museums of San Franciscso: Thames and Hudson, 2004
  • Schmidt, Peter, et.al.
    Maya.
    New York: Rizzoli, 1998
  • Townsend, Richard, Ed.
    Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archaeology of an Unknown Past.
    The Art Institute of Chicago: Thames and Hudson, 1998

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Oceanic Art Books

  • Meyer, Anthony JP.
    Oceanic Art.
    Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1995
  • Newton, Doulgas, et al.
    Oceanic Art.
    Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1997

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Indonesian Art Books

  • Feldman, Jerome, ed.
    The Eloquent Dead, ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
    Regents of the University of California, 1985
  • Sellato, Bernard.
    Hornbill and Dragon, Lalimantan, Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei.
    Elf Aquitaine, 1989

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Textile Art Books

  • Coquet, Michele.
    Textiles Africains
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    Paris: Adam Biro, 1993
  • Meurant, Georges.
    Shoowa Design: African Textiles from the Kingdom of Kuba
    .
    London: Thames and Hudson, 1986
  • Paternosto, César.
    The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art
    .
    Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996
  • Reswick, Irtraud.
    Traditional Textiles of Tunisia and Related North African Weavings.
    Los Angeles: Craft and Fold Art Mueum, 1985
  • Schaedler, Karl-Ferdinand.
    Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara.
    Munich: Panterra Verlag, 1987
  • Sieber, Roy.
    African Textiles and Decorative Arts.
    New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1972
  • Taullard, Alfredo.
    Tejidos y Ponchos Indigenas de Sud America.
    Buenos Aires; Editorial Kraft, 1942

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Books on Ethnic and Tribal Jewelry

  • Butor, Michael.
    Ethnic Jewelry: Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
    The Vendome Press, 1994
  • Borel, France.
    The Spendor of Ethnic Jewelry.
    Henry N. Abrams, Inc. 1994
  • Fisher, Angela.
    Africa Adorned.
    Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1984
  • Leurquin, Anne.
    A World of Necklaces: Africa, Asia, Oceania, America.
    Skira Editore, 2003
  • van Cutsem, Anne.
    A World of Bracelets: Africa, Asia, Oceania, America from the Ghysels Collection.
    Skira Editore, 2002

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General Interest Books

  • Clottes, Jean and David Lewis-Williams.
    The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves.
    New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998
  • Lippard, Lucy.
    Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory.
    New York: Pantheon Books, 1983
  • Paternosto, César.
    The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art
    .
    Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996

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