Category: Anthropology & Indigenous Peoples

The estuary bison pound site in Southwestern Saskatchewan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museums of Canada : 1977

Seller ID: 044652

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 Small rubber stamp stating 'withdrawn', to tp, and a Government of Canada stamp to the front wrapper, otherwise unmarked.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 Report for 1954-55

By: ALCOCK, F. J. - Curator

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museum of Canada : 1956

Seller ID: 27028

Binding: Printed Wrappers

Condition: VG+

Annual Reports of the National Museum of Canada for the year 1954-55. 180pp, illustrated with photo plates and drawings. Bright, clean interior. Unmarked. Tight, square binding. Weight, 390g.
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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-13: 9780690009996

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-13: 9780684826974

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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The Metis people of Canada : a history

By: ANDERSON, Daniel R.; ANDERSON, Alda M.; Alberta Federation of Metis Settlement Associations

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Place of publication not identified, Publisher not identified : 1976

Seller ID: 056798

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

The Métis people originated in the 1700s when French and Scottish fur traders married Aboriginal women, such as the Cree, and Anishinabe (Ojibway). Their descendants formed a distinct culture, collective consciousness and nationhood in the Northwest. Distinct Métis communities developed along the fur trade routes. 128 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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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-13: 9780810980006

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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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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The Bridge of the Gods

By: BALCH, Frederick Homer

Price: $9.95

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

Seller ID: 037625

ISBN-13: 9780832304330

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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Canada West Magazine; Volume 6, Number 1, Winter, 1975

By: BARLEE, N. L.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Summerland, Author Published : 1975

Seller ID: 12435

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: About Fine

Volume 6, Numbers 1, of this popular and influential British Columbia Quarterly Magazine. Fascinating articles on B. C. History of the pioneer days - gold, ghost towns, artifacts, lost treasure, old mines etc. 40pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean copy with sound, stapled binding. Unmarked. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail, or USPS within North America. From $3.50 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations!
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Art and Life in Polynesia

By: BARROW, T.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Wellington, NZ, A. H. & A. Reed : 1972

Seller ID: 29422

ISBN-13: 9780589006495

Binding: Cloth

Condition: About Fine

The Art of Polynesia - Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Marquesas, Society, Australs, Gambier, Cook, Easter, Hawaii, New Zealand, Chatham. 191pp, profusely illustrated in color and in b&w, map, illustrated endpapers. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding. Unclipped dustjacket is bright, clean and unmarked with just a little edge wear. Heavy book weighing 1.12kg.
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Under the Ivi Tree: Society and Economic Growth in Rural Fiji

By: BELSHAW, Cyril S.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1964

Seller ID: 19042

Binding: Cloth, Gilt Titles

Condition: Fine

Study concerns the differentials of economic growth among the Fijian people. 336pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean, unmarked copy with a sound binding. No wear to black cloth. Dustjacket [in brodart], is nearly similar with a small area of surface loss where a price label removed. 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 740g unpacked. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. Wo...
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Thirty Indian Legends of Canada

By: BEMISTER, Margaret

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Vancouver, Douglas & MacIntyre : 1993

Seller ID: 046082

ISBN-13: 9780888940254

Binding: Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

Originally published Toronto, Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1912. 153 p. ill. 23 cm. Illus. by Douglas Tait. Bright, unmarked, 'fresh' copy, 'as new'. Weight, 180g.
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Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935 : pages from a visual History

By: BERLO, Janet Catherine - Editor

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams-American Federation of Arts and the Drawing Center : 1996

Seller ID: 30830

ISBN-13: 9780810937420

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

This lavish volume is the most comprehensive treatment to date of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Plains Indian drawings. It is published on the occasion of the first extensive exhibition of this material, organized by The Drawing Center, New York, and The American Federation of Arts. Featured are thirty-six artists from the Lakota, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Arapaho tribes, such as Black Hawk, Making Medicine, Wohaw, Little Shield, and White Bull. 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. An 'as new' copy - bright, fresh and unmarked in a similar, unclipped dustjacket. Images ava...
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A Cry from the Earth: Music of North American Indians

By: BIERHORST, John

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A., Ancient City Pr : 1992

Seller ID: 048391

ISBN-13: 9780941270533

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: As New

An overview of American Indian music and dance which includes a discussion of their instruments, the structure of their music, and the uses of music in Indian life. Originally published: New York : Four Winds Press, 1979. viii, 113 p. : ill. ; 18 x 26 cm. A bright, clean, unmarked copy. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Appear about '/as new'. Weight, 285g.
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The Mythology of Mexico and Central America

By: Bierhorst, jOHN

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow : 1990

Seller ID: 16371

ISBN-13: 9780688067212

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Discusses the mythology from Indians of various regions of Mexico and Central America, describing origins, comparing the similar tales, and presenting some of the myths themselves. xiv, 239pp, illustrated. Bright, clean & fresh, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding, sound hinges, no wear to the cloth.Unclipped dustjacket is similar. Attractive copy. Unpacked weight, 603g. 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, size and distance; Rates t...
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We Indians: The Passing of a Great Race

By: BIG CHIEF WHITE HORSE EAGLE & Edgar Von Schmidt-Pauli

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. : 1931

Seller ID: 15685

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good +

Recollections of the last of the Great Indian Chiefs - Big Chief White Horse Eagle. Translated by Christopher Turner. 255pp, color frontispiece. Interior is bright. Very minor foxing to endpapers. Binding is tight and sound. No damage to hinges. School award/owner's names on fpde. Minor wear only to brown cloth boards. Yellow ink titles are bright. Solid copy. Weight, 560g.
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Chiwid (Transmontanus, No 2)

By: BIRCHWATER, Sage

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Vancouver, BC, New Star Books : 1998

Seller ID: 056835

ISBN-13: 9780921586395

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: VG+

Story of Chiwid, a Tsilhqot'in woman 1901986], said to have shamanistic powers, who spent most of her adult life "living out" in the hills and forests around Williams Lake, BC. Chiwid is the story of this remarkable woman told in the vibrant voices of Chilcotin oldtimers, both native and non-native. 149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Bright, clean, unmarked inteior. Similar covers but showing a little fore-edge wear. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $4.00 to $6.90 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates...
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Category: Anthropology & Indigenous Peoples