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The estuary bison pound site in Southwestern Saskatchewan

By: ADAMS, Gary F.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museums of Canada: 1977

Seller ID: 044652

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: Near Fine

Masters thesis, University of Saskatchewan, describing excavations at the Estuary Bison Pound site in 1971 and 1972. A Diamond Jeness memorial volume. Summary in French. xii, 211 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Mercury series.; Paper (Archaeological Survey of Canada), no. 68. A bright, clean copy. Small rubber stamp stating 'withdrawn', to tp, and a Government of Canada stamp to the front wrapper, otherwise unmarked. Tight, square binding, no creasing to spine. Weight, 726g.
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The Time-Sense in Civilization

By: AINSWORTH, Thomas H.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Vancouver, Art, Historical and Scientific Assoc.: 1951

Seller ID: 22847

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

An 'Incidental Paper' of the Vancouver Art, Historical and Scientific Association, being a paper delived at the 57th Annual Meeting, Jan. 10, 1951. 9pp. Bright and clean though browning at edges. Weight, 30g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.
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National Museum of Canada Annual Reports for 1939-1947

By: ALCOCK, F. J. - Curator

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museum of Canada: 1949

Seller ID: 27027

Binding: Printed Wrappers

Condition: VG+

Annual Reports of the National Museum of Canada for the years from 1939 to 1947. 118pp, illustrated with 4 photo plates. Bright, clean interior. Unmarked. Tight, square binding. Weight, 270g.
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Time Before Morning: Art and Myth of the Australian Aborigines

By: ALLEN, Louis A.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: U.S.A., Thomas Crowell Co: 1976

Seller ID: 19404

ISBN: 0690009992

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Marvellously illustrated collection of the myths and legends of the aboriginal inhabitants of Australia's Arnhem Land. xii, 304 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Bright, clean and unmarked copy, inside and outside. Tight, square binding, no wear to the cloth. The price-clipped dustjacket shows minor edge wear and a couple of short, closed margin tears. Weight, 1.072kg. We ship Worldwide, at cost, using both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges, at cost, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight,...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

By: AMBROSE, Stephen E.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: USA, Simon & Schuster: 1997

Seller ID: 050916

ISBN: 0684826976

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers their incredible hardships and the contributions of Sacajawea. 521pp, illustrated, maps. An 'as new' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Flawless wrappers. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. This item weighs 680g unpacked. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates are ...
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Curtis' Western Indians : [Life andWorks of Edward S. Curtis]

By: ANDREWS, Ralph W.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Bonanza: 1962

Seller ID: 21381

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Life and works of Edward S. Curtis masterful photographer of Western North American Indians - the United States and Canada. 176 pp, profusely photo illustrated, illustrated endpaapers: 28 cm. Book is a bright, clean and unmarked Fine, no wear to the cloth. The unclipped dustjacket is also bright andclean with a little wear to the head opf the spine and slight rubbing to the rear panel. Unpacked weight, 750g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Canadian GST included. Images always a...
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The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians

By: ANDRIST, Ralph K.

Price: $7.90

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1971

Seller ID: 28510

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: About VG

'A vividly, swiftly paced account of the Plains Indian Wars, and he dispossession of the Plains Indians in the half century after 1840'. 371pp, illustrated, maps. Clean, unmarked interior, slighly browning. Tight, square binding with moderate creasing to spine. No loosening of pages. Wrappers are darkened and show just a little wear. Weight, 452g.
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Pre-Columbian Art and Later Indian Tribal Arts

By: ANTON, Ferdinand; DOCKSTADER, Frederick J.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Abrams: 1968

Seller ID: 33555

ISBN: 0810980002

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

'Pre-Columbian art of Middle and South America', by F. Anton, translated by R.E. Wolf.--'Later Indian tribal arts', by F.J. Dockstader. 264 pages illustrations (some color), color maps 23 cm. Book is very bright and clean internally, still fresh. Binding is tight and square and there is no wear to the cloth. The unclipped dustjacket is similar excepting a lght scartch to the middle of the rear panel. Heavy book weighing 1.063kg.
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Story on stone : a photographic record of rock art in the southern Alberta area surrounding the city of Lethbridge

By: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ALBERTA

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Lethbridge, AB, Archaeological Society of Alberta: 1980

Seller ID: 045252

Binding: Stapled Card Wrappers

Condition: Near Fine

Project (Archaeological Society of Alberta. Lethbridge Centre), no. 20. OCLC Number: 9039500. 76 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. A bright, clean, unmarked copy with a sound, stapled binding, near Fine. Weight, 250g. Ships in Canada via inexpensive Lettermail.
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Esprits Courageux: Les Heroes Autochtones De Nos Enfants

By: ARCHIBALD, Jo-Ann; SMITH, Jeff; FRIESEN, Val

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Penticton, BC, Theytus Books: 1994

Seller ID: 043504

ISBN: 0919441564

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

Biographical detail of various Heroes of the First Nationa Peoples across Canada. French language text. Mokakit Education Research Association. xxiv, 156 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.Bright, fresh, unmarked copy, 'as new'. Weight, 532g.
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Automobile Road Map of Lower California

By: AUTOMOBILE CLUB of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Price: $8.00

Publisher: USA, Automobile Club of Southern California:

Seller ID: 044483

Condition: Good VG

Folding Road Map of Baja California (Mexico). Unfolds to 37`` by 16``, printed one side only, in b&w. Undated - circa 1957 - from code. Clean and unmarked. Folds are sound in the main - small splits noted at a few intersections. See scan. Weight, 24g.
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Kwakiutl String Figures

By: AVERKIEVA, Julia; SHERMAN, Mark A.

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Canada, Univ of British Columbia: 1992

Seller ID: 22911

ISBN: 0774804327

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG+

Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 71. Book publishes for the firsat time 102 string figures and 10 string tricks collected among the Kwakiutl Indians by Julia Averkieva a viviting Soviet scholar who accompanied Franz Boas on his 1939 expedition to Vancouver Island. xxxi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Foreword by Bill Holm. Overall a very clean copy. Unmarked except for a name/date in ink to the ffep. A previous owner has taped a paper pouch to the fpde in which is kept a small quantity of string. Tight, square bindin g, no wear to the cloth. Unclipped dust...
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Windflower: Native American Flute Songbook for 5 Hole Pentatonic Flutes

By: BADKE, Gary

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Kelowna, BC, Author Published:

Seller ID: 874

Binding: Metal Spiral Binding

Condition: About 'As New'

Ten original songs, for the Native American five hole pentatonic, flute which are written out with symbols so that you need no experience with reading music to use it. With a CD of all the songs. 17 leaves, illustrated, CD in pocket at front. Unpacked weight, 153g. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail. Postage $4.00 to 6.00 within North America, in card sleeve. Enquire for rates to the Rest of the World. We ship at our cost. Image available.
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The Bridge of the Gods

By: BALCH, Frederick Homer

Price: $9.95

Publisher: U.S.A., Binford & Mort Pubs: 1985

Seller ID: 037625

ISBN: 0832304336

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: Near Fine

'The Bridge of the Gods combines imagination, fact and legend to write this fictionalized romance. The chief of the Willamettes gathered on Wappatto Island, from time immemorial the council ground of the tribes. The white man has changed its name to Sauvie Island; but its wonderful beauty is unchangeable. ....'. "Biographical sketch of Frederic Homer Blach": p. [287]-318. 318 pages plates ; 23 cm. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding. No creases to the spine. Slight sun-fading to the spine. Weight, 475g.
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Classification of Iroquoian Radicals with Subjective Pronominal Prefixes

By: BARBEAU, C. M.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada Department of Mines: 1915

Seller ID: 09888

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: Good

Geological Survey, Memoir 46. No 7, Anthropological series. 30pp. Interior is clean excepting a light damstain to the front-edge margin. Wrappers show ligt soiling. Sound, tight, stapled binding. Weight, 85g.
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Indian Days in the Canadian Rockies

By: BARBEAU, Marius

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Company of Canada: 1923

Seller ID: 16193

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good VG

Description of the Indians of the Canadian Rocky Mountain area by the celebrated Canadian scholar, Marius Barbeau. 207pp, color pl;ates by artist W. Langdon Kihn, endpapr maps. Bright, clean copy. Binding soild - small repair to front hinge [?]. Clean boards no wear to spine. Weight, 670g. Reduced by 25%!
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Tsimsyan Myths

By: BARBEAU, Marius

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Department of Northern Affairs: 1961

Seller ID: 044847

Binding: Printed Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Myths of one of the principal Indian Nations occupying the Central Coast of British Columbia, the Tsimsyan. National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 174, Anthropological Series No. 51. 97pp, photo illustrated, color illustrated endpapers. Very bright copy with a tight, square spine and firm binding. Small defect on frontis - a small 1/4" hole, perhaps a printing defect. See scan. Weight, 225g.
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Indian Days on the Western Prairies

By: BARBEAU, Marius

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museum of Canada: 1965

Seller ID: 036853

Binding: Stiff Card Wrappers

Condition: Near Fine

Wonderful description of Native Indian culture on the Western Prairies of North America. Bulletin No.163, Anthropological Series No.46. 1974 [?] printing, stiff illustrated wrappers, 8'x10", 234pp, illustrated, endpaper maps. Near Fine copy; tight, square binding, very clean and bright internally and externally. Minor wear to the spine edges. Weight, 616g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. USA postage usually $6.50 or less. Can...
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Perspectives on Aboriginal Culture: BC Studies, Issue Number 135, Autumn 2002

By: BARMAN, Jean & McDONALD, Robert A. J. - Editors

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Vancouver, University of British Columbia: 2002

Seller ID: 30762

Binding: Printed , Card Wrappers

Condition: About Fine

Special issue, Number 135, of BC Studies: The British Columbia Quarterly, on Aboriginal Culture in British Columbia. 194pp, photo illustrated in color and in b&w. Bright, clean copy. Tight, square binding. University Receiving Stamp to top corner of title page, otherwise unmarked. Weight, 350g.
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Oilitics in a Changing Society: A Political History of the Fort Jameson Ngoni

By: BARNES, J. A.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: UK, Manchester Univ Press: 1967

Seller ID: 036994

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Sociological analysis of political developments over a period of about 150 years, from 1821-1949, among a group of Ngoni now living in Zambia and Malawi. Second edition, of 1949 first, incorporates, 'Seven Types of segmentation'. Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia. 245pp, photo illustrated, tables, folding chart. Bright, clean, unmarked copy. Virtually 'as new' except for slight wear to the foot of the spine on the dustjacket only. Weight, 462g.
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Category: Anthropology & Indigenous Peoples