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Essays in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1961

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgments

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    Authors

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    1. Archaeology; Then and Now

    1
    Samuel Κ. Lothrop
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    2. On the Colonial Extinction of the Motifs of Pre-Columbian Art

    14
    George Kubler
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    3. Fine Metalwork in Pre-Conquest Mexico

    35
    Dudley T. Easby
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    4. The Olmecs; Artists tn Jade

    43
    M. W. Stirling
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    5. The Squier Jades from Tontna, Chiapas

    60
    Elizabeth K. Easby
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    6. Portraits of Women in Maya Art

    81
    Tatiana Proskouriakoff
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    7. Types of Ball Courts in the Highlands of Guatemala

    100
    A. Ledyard Smith
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    8. Ball-game Handstones and Ball-game Gloves

    126
    Stephan F. de Borhegyi
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    9. Pottery of the Holmul I Style from Barton Ramie; British Honduras

    152
    Gordon R. Willey and James C. Gifford
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    10. Notes on a Plumbate Vessel with Shell Inlay and on Chiclero's Ulcer

    171
    J. Eric S. Thompson
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    11. A Possibly Unique Type of Formative Figurine from Guatemala

    176
    Α. V. Kidder and Ε. M. Shook
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    12. A Figurine Cache from Kino Bay; Sonora

    182
    Frederick J. Dockstader
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    13. The Stone Sculpture of Costa Rica The

    192
    Doris Stone
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    14. Some Costa Rican Jade Motifs

    210
    Carlos Balser
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    15. Grave Associations and Ceramics tn Veraguas; Panama

    218
    Joy Mahler
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    16. Anthropomorphic Figurines from Colombia, Tfcr Magic and Art

    229
    G. Reichel-Dolmatoff
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    17. Pre-Columbian Metalwork of Colombia and Its Neighbors

    242
    William C. Root
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    18. Peruvian Stylistic Impact on Lower Central America

    258
    Samuel Κ. Lothrop
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    19. A Cupismque Bird Jar

    266
    Geoffrey Bushnell
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    20. Paracas and Nazca Iconography

    269
    Alan R. Sawyer
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    21. Textile Designing and Samplers in Peru

    299
    Junius B. Bird
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    22. The Chronology of Inca Wooden Cups

    317
    John Howland Rowe
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    23. The Bailey Collection of Stone Artifacts from Puerto Rico

    342
    Irving Rouse
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    24. Puerto Rican Stone "Collars33 as Ball-game Belts

    356
    Gordon F. Ekholm
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    25. An Experimental Formulation of Horizon Styles in the Tropical Forest Area of South America

    372
    Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans
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    26. The La Aguada Culture of Northwestern Argentina

    389
    Alberto Rex Gonzalez
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    27. Observations on the Painted Designs of Patagonian Skin Robes

    421
    Carl Schuster
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    Bibliographies for Essays 1-27

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    Notes for Essays 1-27

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October 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674864917
Hardcover published on:
February 5, 1961
Hardcover ISBN:
9780674864900
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2nd printing 1964. Reprint 2014
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
507
Illustrations:
23
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220 halftones
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https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674864917
eBook ISBN: 9780674864917
Hardcover ISBN: 9780674864900
Keywords for this book
Indian art.; Art -- Latin America.; Latin America -- Antiquities.
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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