To celebrate the Hopi Tricentennial (1680-1980), the Science Museum of the California Academy of Sciences arranged an exhibition of Kachina figures (also known as dolls) and other Hopi artifacts. This book beautifully memorializes this exhibit along with extensive text written by prominent Hopi historians and anthropologists. The chapters include articles by Dorothy K. Washburn, Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences; E. Charles Adams and Deborah Hull, Heads of the Walpi Archeological Project for the Museum of Northern Arizona; Watson Smith, a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; John Connelly, Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University; Clara Lee Tanner, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Arizona; John F. Tanner, a former Indian arts and crafts dealer; and J. J. Brody, Director of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico; along with a prologue and glossary of the Hopi alphabet by Emory Sekaquaptewa from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.

Hopi Kachina: Spirit of Life (Dedicated to the Hopi Tricentennial, 1680-1980)

Edited By Dorothy K. Washburn

California Academy of Sciences

Looms and Textiles of the Copts: First Millennium Egyptian Textiles in the Carl Austin Reitz Collection of the California Academy of Science (Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences)

Arts & Photography

Carroll, Diane Lee

History & Criticism

This is the catalog for an exhibition of ninety nineteenth-century photographs drawn primarily from the world-class collection of Michael G. Wilson. Included are the starkly beautiful photographs of Sergeant James McDonald's surveys of Palestine and Jerusalem; recently discovered photographs by Ernest Benecke; and the rare photographs by Maxime Du Camp taken in 1850 as he traveled with Flaubert. With the invention of photography and the increasing popularity of travel in the mid-nineteenth century, the Holy Land became one of the most photographed places on earth. Interest in Jerusalem and Palestine was particularly pronounced in England, partly because of England's need to control its routes to the riches of India, but also because of Britain's cultural identification with the people and lands of the Bible. Imperial ambition and deeply ingrained cultural associations resulted in a surge of photographic activity in Palestine. McDonald's photographs from surveys of Jerusalem and the Sinai epitomize the dual imperatives of Bible and Empire. Photography provided a new standard for authenticity in pictorial representations. Early photographs were considered the ultimate bearers of "reality" at a time when viewers had not yet lost their naïve faith in the objective accuracy of photography. Throughout the last half of the nineteenth century, the Holy Land drew legions of photographers: amateurs recording a stop on the Grand Tour, academics pursuing archaeological theories, military surveyors—all trying to capture the truthfulness of a land that had enormous spiritual, emotional, and political connotations for most of the Western world. What they saw, and how they saw it, are the themes of this beautifully recorded collection.

Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine

Howe, Kathleen Stewart

Photography & Video

Rosovsky, Nitza

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Accompanying the British Army during its decisive foray into China in 1860, Felice Beato (18201907) was the first photographer to document a military campaign in progress. He captured not only the immediacy of war, the aftermath of battle, and strategic military positions, but also the sumptuous new Summer Palace (seen by few Chinese and even fewer foreigners) before its destruction by the British. His photographic record of the Second Opium War consisted of approximately one hundred images, including a number of panoramic views, which survive in the form of private albums originally compiled by British officers as a record of their victorious campaign. One such album, now in the collection of Jane and Michael Wilson, is presented here. In addition to providing a strikingly beautiful glimpse of nineteenth-century China, these images also reveal how photography functioned as an integral component of British imperialism by shaping perceptions about a distant country and its culture. Essayist David Harris provides an overview of Beato’s work in China, and his extensive catalog notes describe and contextualize each of the photographs.

Of Battle and Beauty: Felice Beato's Photographs of China

Harris, David

Introduction to the Flora of Chiapas, Pt. 1 (Flora of Chiapas Series)

Science & Math

Breedlove, Dennis E.

Biological Sciences

Pteridophytes (Flora of Chiapas Series Part 2)

Smith, Allan R.

Sports & Outdoors

Sm Quarto, 1972, PP.436, By The First Director Of The Strybing Arboretum, This book Was Edited For Publication By John Thomas Howell After Walther Died In 1959; This Book Is From The Personal Working Library of Dr. Alfred Byrd Graf of The Roehrs Co., New Jersey. Dr. Graf Traveled The World Botanizing For The Roehrs Company. He Wrote Three Major Books On Tropical And Sub Tropical Plants - Exotica, Hortica And Tropica. Dr. Graf Died in 2001 at the age of 100. Ask about this collection of over 700 tropical plant books.

Echeveria

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Walther, Eric

Gardening & Landscape Design

Mammals of Lake Tahoe

Orr, Robert

Loving tribute to world renowned and beloved San Francisco based botanist, Alice Eastwood (1859-1953.)

The Perennial Adventure: A Tribute to Alice Eastwood, 1859-1953

Dakin, Susanna Bryant

Biographies & Memoirs

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