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KANO, Chiaki, TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, The Americas, materials on the Americas
from the Takahashi collection, 96 p., Peru, Columbia, Costa Rica, MAYA,
ballgame hacha, palma, polychrome vases, plates, bowls, eccentric flints
(stela cache), eccentric obsidian, preclassic pottery, figurines, Maya polychrome
enema scene, outstanding glyphs on giant Peten Maya plate. $100 because
we had to fly to Japan to track down this book (attempting to do it by mail
did not work). No. 6155
MORISHITA MUSEUM OF ART, MORISHITA MUSEUM CATALOG - 1976, 66 Color
plates of artifacts, 70 B&W photos of maps, sites, artifacts and illustrations.
Ignore the Japanese script and concentrate on the photographs, MAYA (lowland
and highland, glyphs, polychrome, plates, bowls), Tiquisate incensario,
Ecuador, Costa Rica, Peruvian archaeology. Most of the Maya items have not
been published anywhere else. This book is not sold in the USA or Europe
by any other bookseller. We had to go to Japan to get it in person. 79 p.,
$120. No. 6188
ONISHI MUSEUM, RAMAWORLD - Ancient Civilization of the Earthenware exhibition,
America before Columbus came, Peru, MAYA VASES, bowls (full page size
color photographs in a quality only Japan can produce). Produced by one
of the richest private museums in Japan. It took four days to get to this
museum in a rather out-of-the-way part of the country. Hardcover 48 p.,
$100. No. 6205
PAZ, Octavio; STERLIN, Henri et al., ART MILLENAIRE DES AMERIQUES,
coffeetable masterpiece, Olmec, Tlatilco, Xochipala, Colima, Chupicuaro,
Mezcala, 156 works of art from Mesoamerica, Peru & the Amazon in exact
color, each described fully in appendix, also 146 photos, maps and illustrations
(most in color) depicting the expeditions of Columbus, Cortez & Pizarro
as well as the art of Mexico, Mesoamerica, ancient Peru and the Amazon.
379 p., $300. No. 6211
PEREZ Zevallos, Juan and Jose Antonio Perez Gollan, LA ETNOHISTRIA EN
MESOAMERICA Y LOS ANDES, INAH, 258 p., $30. No. 6213
KING, Elizabeth (ed) ART & ENVIRONMENT IN NATIVE AMERICA, eight
articles, includes: HALLUCINOGENS IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART by Peter Furst, CLIMATE
& ICONOGRAPHY IN PALENQUE SCULPTURE by George Kubler, and articles on
Mexican and Peruvian art, 169 p. $40. No. 6157
YASUGI, Yoshiho, GREAT MONUMENTS OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD, VOL 13, coffee table book on Mesoamerica and Peru, with 134 stunning
photographs (a quality only the Japanese can produce), An ideal present,
and, for a major library, this is one title you are certainly missing. It
includes several F.L.A.A.R. photographs by Nicholas Hellmuth including polychrome
Maya vases nowhere else published (fig. 71, for example). We can't read
Japanese either (captions identify the sites in English), but the book sure
looks impressive. It is a joy to see such perfectly illuminated Maya sites
and such flawless color printing.175 large pages, $250. No. 6284
- MOCHICA
BENSON, Elizabeth, THE MOCHICA - A Culture of Peru, Hardcover, 8
color photos of sites and artifacts, 114 B&W photos of statues &
pottery, 5 photos of sites, describes the people through their art. 164
p., $15.
No. 6044
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