National Geographic On Indians Of The Americas. A Color-Illustrated Record
by Stirling, Matthew W. Ilustrated By W. Langdon Kihn and H.M. Herget
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1957. . A volume in The National Geographic Story of Man Library. Foreword by John Oliver La Gorce. This is the Indian of the Americas: The Navajo artist bent over his work of silver; Tarascan girls at a village fountain; the Eskimo battling a polar bear; the bow-and-arrow stalker in Guiana jungles; the ancient Maya priest decked in writhing quetzal plumes. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of 149 paintings by W. Langdon Kihn and H.M. Herget and eight contemporary Indian painters; 113 photographs in natural color; 130 b/w photographs, maps drawings and diagrams. Salmon color boards with grey cloth spine. Gilt print and decoration to front board and spine. No ownership markings. A nice clean copy.. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good.
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- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B002
- Title
- National Geographic On Indians Of The Americas. A Color-Illustrated Record
- Author
- Stirling, Matthew W. Ilustrated By W. Langdon Kihn and H.M. Herget
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- National Geographic Society
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- North American Indians Eskimos Indian Painters Central and South America Story of Man Library
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