The art of the north-east frontier of India

Shillong : North-East Frontier Agency, 1959. First edition. Large quarto (280 x 215 mm), publisher’s decorated cloth (fine), in the pictorial dust jacket (lightly marked); map endpapers; ex libris of Lorna and Walter Lippmann to verso of front free-endpaper; pp. xvi, 211, with hundreds of photographic plates (15 colour) and line-drawn illustrations; an excellent copy.

Scarce and invaluable resource on the artistic traditions of the hill tribes of northeastern India (Assam and Meghalaya, in particular). Comprehensive and profusely illustrated, it covers textiles, body ornament, dance masks, wood carving, and sculpture.