Le Roy H. Appleton - American Indian Design & Decoration

The list of authorities given below is selective, and suggests many works which will be of value more to the beginner than the specialist.

The following Institutions publish lists of books and monographs on the Indians of the Americas, and will be pleased to furnish such lists on application:

American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y.

British Museum, London

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D. C.

Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Ill.

Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, N. M.

Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wis.

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, N. Y.

National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico City, D. F.

National Museum of Archaeology, Lima, Peru

National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

National Museum of Mexico, MexicoCity,D.F.

Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio

Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.

Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C.

United States National Museum, Washington, D. C.

University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pa.

University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

Yale University Publications in Anthropology, New Haven, Conn.

ADAIR, JOHN

The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths, Norman, Okla., 1945

ALEXANDER, H. B.

Pueblo Indian Painting, Nice, (France), 1932

AMSDEN, CHARLES AVERY

Navaho Weaving, L.A., 1949 (Dover, 1971)

American Folklore Society

Journal, Volumes XX, XXII, XXIII

Memoirs, Volumes V, XL

American Museum of Natural History

Anthropological Papers, Volumes X, XXI, XXXIV (Part 1)

(Handbooks are listed under the names of the authors)

BANCROFT, H. H.

The Conquest of Mexico, New York, 1883

BANDELIER, ADOLPH F.

Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico in 1881, Boston, 1884

BEDINGER, MARGERY

Navajo Indian Silverwork, Denver, 1936

BENNETT, WENDELL C.

Weaving in the Land of the Incas, in Natural History (a magazine), New York, 1935

Archaeological regions of Colombia: A ceramic survey, New Haven, 1944

BINGHAM, HIRAM

Machu Picchu, A Citadel of the Incas, New Haven, 1930

Lost City of the Incas, New York, 1948

BIRKET-SMITH, KAJ.

The Eskimos, New York, 1936

BLOM, FRANS

The Conquest of Mexico, Boston, 1936

Tribes and Temples, New Orleans, La., 1926-27

BOAS, FRANZ

Primitive Art, Cambridge, Mass., 1927 (Dover)

The Decorative Art of the North Pacific Coast, New York, 1897 (American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin IX)

BRENNER, ANITA

Idols behind Altars, New York, 1932

BRINTON, DANIEL G.

The Maya Chronicles, Philadelphia, 1882

Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Philadelphia, 1887

Rig Veda Americanus, Philadelphia, 1890

BUNZEL, RUTH

The Pueblo Potter, New York, 1929

Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. (BAE)

Annual Report, Numbers 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34, 37, 38, 42, 43, 47

Bulletin, Numbers 28, 30, 39, 78, 86, 88, 98,143

CAHILL, HOLGER

American Sources of Modern Art, New York, 1933

CASO, ALFONSO

Monte Alban, Richest Archaeological Find in America, in The National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D. C., Jan. 1932

Pre-Spanish Art, in Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art, New York, 1940

Reading the Riddle of Ancient Jewels, in Natural History, New York, 1932

CATHERWOOD, FREDERICK

Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, (see Stephens, John L.)

Catholic University of America

The Apinay, by Curt Nimuendaj, Washington, D. C., 1939, (Anthropological Series No. 8)

CATLIN, GEORGE

Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1876 (Dover reprint)

CHAPMAN, KENNETH

Pueblo Indian Pottery, Nice, (France), 1933 and 1936

The Pottery of Santo Domingo Pueblo, Santa Fe, N. M., 1939

CODEX FLORENTINO

Illustrations for Sahaguns Historia de las Casas de Nueva Espana, Madrid, 1905

CODEX NUTTALL (Codex Zouche)

Introduction by Zelia Nuttall, Cambridge, 1902

COLLIER, JOHN

Indians of the Americas, New York, 1947

COLLINS, HENRY B.

Prehistoric Art of the Alaskan Eskimo, Washington, 1929 (Smithsonian Institution, Miscel. Coll. Vol. 84)

COLTON, HAROLD S.

Hopi Kachina Dolls, Albuquerque, N. M., 1949

CORTES, HERNANDO

Letters of Cortes, Trans. and ed. by F. A. Mac-Nutt, New York and London, 1908

CRAWFORD, M. D. C.

The Heritage of Cotton, New York, 1924

CURTIN, JEREMIAH

Myths of the Modocs, Boston, 1912

CUSHING, FRANK H.

Exploration of Ancient Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Philadelphia, 1896

DE LANDA, FRIAR DIEGO

Yucatan Before and After the Conquest, Trans. William Gates, Baltimore, 1937

DENSMORE, FRANCES

Chippewa Customs, Washington, 1929, (BAE, Bulletin 86)

DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, BERNAL

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, trans., A. P. Maudslay, London, 1908-16

The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, trans. A. P. Maudslay, London, 1928

DIXON, ROLAND B.

Basketry Designs of the Indians of Northern California, New York, 1902, (American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin 17)

DOUGLAS, FREDRIC, and DHARNONCOURT, REN

Indian Art of the United States, New York, 1941

EMMONS, GEORGE T.

The Basketry of the Tlinkit, New York, 1903

The Chilkat blanket: with notes on the blanket designs by Frank Boas, New York, 1907

EWERS, JOHN C.

Plains Indian Painting, Palo Alto, Calif., 1939

FEWKES, JESSE WALTER

Tusayan Katcinas, (BAE, 15th Annual Report, Washington, D. C., 1893-4)

Archaeological expedition to Arizona, (BAE, 17th Annual Report, Washington, D. C., 1896)

Two Summers work in Pueblo ruins, (BAE, 21st Annual Report, Washington, D. C., 1901)

The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands, (BAE, 25th Annual Report, Washington, D. C., 1904)

A Prehistoric Island Culture Area of America, (BAE, 34th Annual Report, Washington, D. C., 1913)

FLETCHER, ALICE C. and LA FLESCHE, FRANCIS

The Omaha Tribe, (BAE, 27th Annual Report, Washington, D. C., 1905-6)

GANN, THOMAS

Mounds in northern Honduras, (BAE, 19th Annual Report, Washington, D. C., 1897-8 )

Glories of the Maya, London, 1938

GANN, THOMAS and THOMPSON, J. ERIC

The History of the Maya from the Earliest Time to the Present Day, New York, 1931

GODDARD, PLINY EARLE

Indians of the Southwest, New York, 1931

Indians of the Northwest Coast, New York, 1924

GORDON, G. B.

Examples of Maya Pottery in the Museum and Other Collections, ed. by J. A. Maison, Philadelphia, 1925 and 1928

GRINNELL, GEORGE B.

Blackfoot Lodge Tales, New York, Charles Scribners Sons, 1892

GUEVARA, TOMAS

Folklore Araucano, Santiago (Chile), 1911

GUTHE, CARL E.

Pueblo Pottery Making, New Haven, 1925