POTTERY, FIGURINES, CERAMICS - GENERAL
COE, Michael, CLASSIC MAYA POTTERY AT
DUMBARTON OAKS, Double page size portfolio of Classic Maya vases, all
in color, with description of iconography, deities, hieroglyphs.
deSMET, Peter & HELLMUTH, Nicholas, A Multidisciplinary Approach
to Ritual Enema Scenes on Ancient Maya Pottery, 23 B&W photographs
of rollouts and of pottery and descriptions, 50 p.
deSMET, Peter, Ritual enemas and snuffs in the Americas (Latin America studies)
Duke Museum collection, Rulers, Deities and Death: Maya Ceramics from the Duke University Museum Collection and Other Examples of Pre-Columbian Art
de la FUENTE, Beatriz, PELDANOS EN LA CONCIENCIA -Rostros en la Plastica
Prehispanica, 88 photographs, in Spanish, Hardcover, 101 p.
HELLMUTH, N. (ed.), TZAKOL AND TEPEU MAYA POTTERY DRAWINGS by Barbara
van Heusen, Persis Clarkson, and Lin Crocker. ca. 45 large format, rollout
line drawings, Two parts, 2nd part is 70 pages text. Rare edition, as this
is a printer's proof, only 150 copies produced - ONLY 3 SETS LEFT WITH STAMPED
PORTFOLIO COVER. A limited edition that will never be re-done in the present
arrangement.
HELLMUTH, N., CATALOG OF TZAKOL PERIOD MAYA ART IN SITE REPORTS AND IN
MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Canada and Europe,
Vol. II: Maya Cylindrical Tripods. This is the only catalog of all known
Early Classic cylindrical tripods from the museums and private collections
throughout the world. Sections include stuccoed-and-painted, polychrome
painted, negative painted, etc. Lists all hieroglyphic inscriptions. Pots
in private collections are compared and contrasted with all known examples
excavated from Chiapas, Peten, Belize, Honduras, and the highlands especially
with tripods from Tikal and Uaxactun. 7 full page photographs, 247 pages
of cogent description.
HILDSHEIM, Die Welt Der Maya, (in German), 264 color plates of precolombian artifacts with full page in depth analyses, descriptions and provenances, 14 articles in 284 pages w/175 beautiful color photographs of sites, stelae, codices, murals and artifacts. The authors of the articles are: Herbert Wilhelmy, Juan Antonio Valdes, Robert J. Sharer, Nicholas P. Dunning, Wolfgang W. Wurster, Oscar Quintana, Stephan D. Houston & David Stuart, David A. Freidel, Ted Leyenaar & Gerald W. van Bussel, Linda Schele, Nicholai Grube, T. Patrick Culbert, Diane & Arlene Chase, and Carolyn Tate. 636 p.
JORALEMON, David TREASURES OF PRE-COLUMBIAN
ART: Collection of Janos Szekeres 64 p.of Olmec jades, polychrome Maya
vases (full color, not published anywhere else), and Jaina figurines, etc.
LARRALDE de SAENZ, Jacqueline, Cronicas en barro y piedra: Arte prehispanico de Mexico en la Coleccion Saenz : el periodo formativo (Spanish Edition)
LAPORTE, Juan Pedro & VALDES, Juan Antonio, Tikal Y Uaxactun En El Preclasico
MORISHITA MUSEUM OF ART, MORISHITA MUSEUM CATALOG - 1976, 66 Color plates of artifacts, 70 B&W photos of maps, sites, artifacts and illustrations. Ignore the Japanese script and concentrate on the photographs, MAYA (lowland and highland, glyphs, polychrome, plates, bowls), Tiquisate incensario, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Peruvian archaeology. Most of the Maya items have not been published anywhere else. This book is not sold in the USA or Europe by any other bookseller. We had to go to Japan to get it in person. 79 p.
MOYO RUBIO, Victor Jose, Mascaras: la otra cara de Mexico/ Masks: The Other Face of Mexico
MUSEE BARBIER-MUELLER, ART DE L'AMERIQUE PRECOLOMBIENNE, Olmec, Veracruz hacha, Teotihuacan mask & mural, Monte Alto (Guatemala Preclassic), Tlatilco, Aztec, Huaxtec, 3 maps, 30 full page photographs of artifacts, covers North and South America, Antilles and Mesoamerica, 50 p.
ONISHI MUSEUM, RAMAWORLD - Ancient Civilization of the Earthenware exhibition, America before Columbus came, Peru, MAYA VASES, bowls (full page size color photographs in a quality only Japan can produce). Produced by one of the richest private museums in Japan. It took four days to get to this museum in a rather out-of-the-way part of the country. Hardcover 48 p.
PARSONS, L., PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA: THE ART
& ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH, CENTRAL AND MIDDLE AMERICA. Jaina
figurines, ballgame sculpture, incense burners, Preclassic, Aztec, West
Coast Mexico, 193 p.
ROBICSEK, Francis, THE MAYA BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CERAMIC CODEX,
hundreds and hundreds of Justin Kerr photographs of Maya vases, deities,
iconography, decipherment of hieroglyphs especially Primary Standard Sequence.
SCHELE, Linda & FREIDEL, David, A FOREST
OF KINGS -The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, w/16 color plates, photographic
rollouts of Maya vase & pottery drawings, hardcover, 542 p.
THE SPLENDID TOMB OF TEMPLE I AT TIKAL, GUATEMALA and "NOTE
ON HIEROGLYPHS ON BONE FROM THE TOMB BELOW TEMPLE I" and TIKAL
GRAFFITI, Expedition, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1963.
TROUT, Lawana Hooper, THE MAYA, (Indians of North America), 11 color photos of Jaina figurines, 49 B&W photos, 3 maps, 13 drawings (includes some 16th century English & Dutch fictionalized anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda), hardcover, 127 p.
TSURUMOTO, Shozo, TREASURES OF THE ANCIENT MAYA EXHIBITION - Searching the Rise and Fall Mystery, (in Japanese), maps of expeditions of Columbus, spheres of influences of some Maya city states known, locations of city states, 128 color photographs of Maya artifacts on black back-ground plates, 112 p.
New page format posted October 19, 2009