Isleta Paintings - Smithsonian Institution Press Revised Edition 1970 Hardcover (VG) - Perfect for Art Collectors & Native American History Enthusiasts

Parsons, Elsie Clews, and Esther S. Goldfrank. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970.

English, Revised Edition, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4", [iv] xxii, 170 pp.

Rust cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to spine, minor wear to tips, head, and tail, some foxing to edges, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Good black pictorial dust jacket, featuring full-color image, "Old Man Bear" to front, white lettering to front, back, and spine, some closed tears to spine and edges, wear to edges, tips, head, and tail, shelf wear, price-clipped, otherwise, intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [iv] xxii, 170 pp., replete with black-and-white images and full-color frontispiece. Includes Foreword by Ester S. Goldfrank, List of Paintings, Introduction and Commentary by Elsie Clews Parsons, Commentary and Paintings on Birth, Curing, Death, Ceremonial Cycles, Stone fetishes, and Prayer sticks and prayer feathers, Annotated Glossary of Isleta Terms, References, and Appendix: Facsimiles of 3 letters by Joe B. Lente. From inside dust jacket: "In her foreword to this edition, Mrs. Goldfrank explains the ensuing events that led to the disclosure of the artist as the late Joe B. Lente is deserving of the recognition now afforded him as an artist and as a human being whose observations have enhanced and illuminated the history and the study of the American Southwest."