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Apples of Immortality from the Cuna Tree of Life: The Study of a Most Ancient Ceremonial and a Belief That Survived 10,000 Years
by Keeler, Clyde E
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Exposition Press, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Burnt orange cloth, brown titles on front board & spine, 68, [4] pp, 16 ff b&w plates, index. Corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, a few small foxed spots on front free endpaper & last page of index. Price-clipped DJ spine slightly faded, bottom corners of flaps trimmed, slight wear to extremities; in Brodart archival cover. From the introduction: "The Paluwalla Tree of Life of the Cuna Indians of San Blas, Panama, is so holy that it is considered sacrilegious to talk about it to outsiders; hence, complete information is difficult to obtain. In fact, it is only by chance that the scientific world even knows that the Cunas carry out a most secret ceremony in the jungle before the Tree of Life.... I had tried for ten years to get Cuna medicine priests to talk to me about this most sacred ceremony but in vain. It was a taboo topic of conversation. Finally, I had to publish Secrets of the Cuna Earthmother without the information." This book fills in the missing information from interviews and other communications with various of the author's Cuna acquaintances. Related postcard laid in. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21 X 14 cm.
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- Bookseller
- Twin City Antiquarian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SSCU00009
- Title
- Apples of Immortality from the Cuna Tree of Life: The Study of a Most Ancient Ceremonial and a Belief That Survived 10,000 Years
- Author
- Keeler, Clyde E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Exposition Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Social Sciences Culture Folkways
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
- Size
- 21 X 14 cm
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