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Tucson, AZ: American Rock Art Research Assn. , 2007. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W photos, drawings illustrate throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2007 ARARA large paperback, first edition, no printing given. B&W photos, drawings, & charts illustrate. CONTENT: For over 6,000 years traders, hunters, and farmers visited and lived in Nine Mile Canyon in Utah. The perennial creek and springs provided year-round water for agriculture. The evidence of this long history of human habitation is a forty-mile rock gallery following Minnie Maud creek to the Green River. This corridor is one of the world's longest and most magnificent rock art panels. When the Barrett Corporation was granted permission to drill for oil and gas in Nine Mile Canyon, most of the great panels were impacted by dust and chemical from this industrial endeavor. This book seeks to save, at least via drawings and photos, what is left of this great art work. The permission to drill was… Read More

Dover Publications, 1992. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Color illustratoins by various artists. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1992 Dover edition, this printing c. 2000. Problem: I have 2 - 1 has a pale, short "scratch" on the front cover panel at "Hazen" and the other has a very small loss of color spot at the spine. Neither are horrible, but certainly there. If you order, I'll ask you which one you would like via scan. CONTENT: For many centuries, Amerindian peoples of the southwestern United States have lived in communal villages, or pueblos, that are typically a complex of flat-roofed buildings made of adobe or stone. Now children can re-create a pueblo village with this simple, colorful scale model. All that's needed is a pair of scissors and a bit of glue. Simple instructions enable young model makers to assemble authentic pueblo dwellings and populate the village with two-sided free-standing figures of Indians engaged in day-to-day activities,… Read More

University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Reprint 4th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W Black Mesa map; chapter decorations; sheet music. CONDITION: UNREAD 1991 Univ. of New Mexico Press (ABQ) trade paperback, reprint, 4th printing. B&W Black Mesa map plus beautiful chapter decorations. CONTENT: Here the noted folklorist brings together traditional accounts of epic events and adventures in the life of Hopi clans and villages, from legendary to historical times. Notes, a pronunciation guide, and a glossary enhance the reader's appreciation of the text.

University of Arizona Press, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Good+. Color & B&W illustrations throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1991 Univ. of Arizona Press hardcover (beige boards) & dust jacket (Good+, in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. PROBLEM: The DJ shows edge wear (see scans) top edge with some sunning to spine bleeding into back DJ panel. (I have done a bit of cosmetic work on the DJ - not shown - and it does look better.) B&W drawings and illustrations along with color plates of the completed Kachinas. Interior clean & tight. CONTENT: Much has been written about the popular kachina dolls carved by the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona, but little has been revealed about the artistry behind them. Now Helga Teiwes describes the development of this art form from early traditional styles to the action-style kachina dolls made popular in galleries throughout the world, and on to the kachina sculptures that have evolved in the last half of the 1980s.… Read More