| Description |
507 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliographies": pages 449-483. |
| Contents |
Archaeology, then and now / Samuel K. Lothrop -- On the colonial extinction of the motifs of Pre-Columbian art / George Kubler -- Fine metalwork in pre-conquest Mexico / Dudley T. Easby, Jr. -- Olmecs, artists in jade / M.W. Stirling -- Squier jades from Toniná, Chiapas / Elizabeth K. Easby -- Portraits of women in Maya art / Tatiana Proskouriakoff -- Types of ball courts in the highlands of Guatemala / A. Ledyard Smith -- Ball-game handstones and ball-game gloves / Stephan F. De Borhegyi -- Pottery of the Holmul I style from Barton Ramie, British Honduras / Gordon R. Willey and James C. Gifford -- Notes on a Plumbate vessel with shell inlay and on Chiclero's Ulcer / J. Eric S. Thompson -- A possibly unique type of formative figurine from Guatemala / A.V. Kidder and E.M. Shook -- A figurine cache from Kino Bay, Sonora / Frederick J. Dockstader -- Stone sculpture of Costa Rica / Doris Stone -- Some Costa Rican jade motifs / Carlos Balser -- Grave associations and ceramics in Veraguas, Panama / Joy Mahler -- Anthropomorphic figurines from Colombia, their magic and art / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- Pre-Columbian metalwork of Colombia and its neighbors / William C. Root -- Peruvian stylistic impact on lower Central America / Samuel K. Lothrop -- A Cupisnique bird jar / Geoffrey Bushnell -- Paracas and Nazca iconography / Alan R. Sawyer -- Textile designing and samplers in Peru / Junius B. Bird -- Chronology of Inca wooden cups / John Howland Rowe -- Bailey collection of stone artifacts from Puerto Rico / Irving Rouse -- Puerto Rican stone "collars" as ball-game belts / Gordon F. Ekholm -- An experimental formulation of horizon styles in the tropical forest area of South America / Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans -- La Aguada culture of northwestern Argentina / Albert Rex González -- Observations on the painted designs of Patagonian skin robes / Carl Schuster. |
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Indian art.
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Indian art. |
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Latin America -- Antiquities.
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Latin America. |
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Antiquities. |
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Art -- Latin America.
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Art. |
| Added Author |
Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965.
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Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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