Author: British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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A Short Guide to the American Antiquities in the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography
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ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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A Short Guide to the American Antiquities in the British Museum
Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332133796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Excerpt from A Short Guide to the American Antiquities in the British Museum: With 12 Plates and 48 Illustrations The present guide deals only with those examples of native American industry and art which may be separated, as antiquities, from the work of modern tribes. The greater part has been obtained from excavations; of others, such as the Mexican mosaics, the history has been known for some centuries. But the great antiquity of many of the objects in the room is by no means certain. Some of them, for instance the stone arrow-points of the Plains Indians, though recovered by excavation, may well be no more ancient than the similar arrow-points used by the Indians of fifty or a hundred years ago. It is therefore rather on practical than on scientific grounds that the American collections are divided into two portions. The collection is remarkable chiefly for the unrivalled series of Mexican mosaics, for the wood-carvings from the Macabi Islands, and for the highly artistic Peruvian pottery from the Chicama valley. The Trustees are indebted to the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute for the loan of the following blocks: Figs. 31, 32, 43, 44, 47. Pl. X, Pl. XI, and Pl. XII. This brief guide has been prepared by Mr. T. A. Joyce, Assistant in the Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332133796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Excerpt from A Short Guide to the American Antiquities in the British Museum: With 12 Plates and 48 Illustrations The present guide deals only with those examples of native American industry and art which may be separated, as antiquities, from the work of modern tribes. The greater part has been obtained from excavations; of others, such as the Mexican mosaics, the history has been known for some centuries. But the great antiquity of many of the objects in the room is by no means certain. Some of them, for instance the stone arrow-points of the Plains Indians, though recovered by excavation, may well be no more ancient than the similar arrow-points used by the Indians of fifty or a hundred years ago. It is therefore rather on practical than on scientific grounds that the American collections are divided into two portions. The collection is remarkable chiefly for the unrivalled series of Mexican mosaics, for the wood-carvings from the Macabi Islands, and for the highly artistic Peruvian pottery from the Chicama valley. The Trustees are indebted to the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute for the loan of the following blocks: Figs. 31, 32, 43, 44, 47. Pl. X, Pl. XI, and Pl. XII. This brief guide has been prepared by Mr. T. A. Joyce, Assistant in the Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Short Guide to the American Antiquities in the British Museum
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Return to an Order of the Honourable the House of Commons ... For, Account "of the Income and Expenditure of the British Museum (Special Trust Funds) for the Year Ending ... and Return of the Number of Persons Admitted to Visit the Museum and the British Museum (Natural History) in Each Year from ... Together with a Statement of the Progress Made in the Arrangement and Description of the Collections, and an Account of Objects Added to Them in the Year ..."
The Burlington Magazine
Author: Robert Edward Dell
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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A Catalogue of ... [books] ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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