Volume I: “The Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings”. 209 pages, 1 color plate, 264 drawings, 80 smaller drawings, 7 plans and maps, maps on endpapers. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 1975.

Volume II: "The Braden School: Phase A". 52 pages of text containing 40 drawings, plus 52 pages of two-color plates. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 1975. 

Volume III: "The Braden School: Phase B. The Braden School: Phase C". 78 pages of text containing 80 drawings, plus 78 leaves of two-color plates. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 1975. 

Volume IV. "The Craig School: Phase A". 69 pages of text containing 69 drawings, plus 69 pages of two-color plates. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 1979. 

Volume V: "The Craig School: Phase B". 98 pages of text containing 96 drawings, plus 96 pages of two-color plates. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 1980. Water dampness staining to front board, under illustration. Painted lettering on spine slightly faded, but still visible. 

Volume VI. "The Craig School: Phase C". 88 pages of text containing 88 drawings, plus 88 pages of two-color plates. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 1982. 

In good condition. Each of the volumes, bound in linen, is folio-size (14"x18"). The edition was limited to 500 copies. Some general soiling to all volume’s front and rear boards, some instances of finger soiling. No known previous ownership or marginalia. All textblocks in good condition, a complete work. Bindings tight and intact. Please see photos. 

This six volume series--the most lavish ever published by the Peabody Museum--examines the ceremonial artifacts and engravings on gorgets and cups that constitute the largest corpus of figural and decorative art that has ever come out of a single site in the United States and that is unequalled in North America as a single source of pre-historic and decorative art. These magnificant examples of Southeastern Indian art are reproduced in full-page, two color plates that contain actual size reproductions of the rubbings of the engravings on the cups and gorgets from this great site. Volume VI, in addition to dealing with the final phase of the Craig style, contains a summary of the study, the complete bibliography for the six volumes, and an extensive index.

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