This comprehensive volume brings to light the wondrously inventive clay people, mythological creatures, and effigy vessels of the Mojave people, recording this Southwest Indian ceramic art and a complete catalog of the Dillingham Collection of Mojave Ceramics, one of the largest and most complete Mojave assemblages in the world, at the Indian Arts ...
Now available in paperback, 'People of the Peyote' explores the Huichol Indians of Mexico, who are best known for their worship of the peyote cactus. Ritually harvested each year, the peyote flower plays a central role in most Huichol observances of the annual ceremonial round. The Huichols have been the most culturally persistent indigenous group ...
Nonetheless, whatever their ways of dealing with their environments, and whatever factors contributed to the organic growth of their particular religions and art forms, the native peoples of North America did share certain basic assumptions about the structure of the cosmos, the natural environment, and the place of human beings within it.
Mycologist R. Gordon Wasson's pioneering work with Mexican curandera Maria Sabina in the 1950s brought increased attention to the use of psychoactive plants in the healing and spiritual life of indigenous peoples.
The art of distillation arrived in Mexico with the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Even before that time native skills and available resources had contributed to a well-developed tradition of intoxicating beverages, many of which are still produced and consumed. Henry Bruman visited various Mexican and Central American Indian tribes to ...
Mongolia, a country that evokes romantic curiosity on the part of American readers, has emerged from its former Soviet cocoon. It has achieved independence, democracy, and a twenty-first-century market economy. This book provides factual information about Mongolia and new ways of looking at a historical figure, Genghis Khan, whose ideals of ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Asociacion Cultural Humboldt
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. chipped and torn edges to DJ, otherwise clean and tight copy. Interesting inscription inside cover: In commemoration of the first flight of the Boeing 747 Orinoco named on behalf of our magnificent river 8th April, 1972... 207 p. with illus. and maps. 29 cm. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good. Exhibition Catalogue. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 36 pp., illus.; 28 cm. Exhibition held September 24 to November 5, 1967. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Pre-Columbian art from Mexico. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Privately Published
Date Published: 1988
Description: Near Fine. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Very nice copy, clean, no writing or marks, binding tight. Color decorated stiff paper wraps, signed andinscribed by Peter Furst, who did the Introduction and catalogue, pages 311-383, Index, illustrated in color and b & w. Some very light soil to wraps, bottom corners very lightly bumped with faint crease. 1.2 Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 2 oz. Signed by Author. Inventory No: 005540. read more
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