Over the past three decades, Ralph T. Coe has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada to assemble this collection of Native American art, one of the finest in private hands today.

This book is at once a history of that culture and a celebration of its splendid variety.

Both through their beauty and widespread use they are the most representative artefacts of aboriginal America. This booklet discusses 100 pipes from the collections of the British Museum.

Description of the North American section of the Cook collection, and three further eighteenth-century accessions of Pacific North American artifacts.

"The purpose of this volume of essays is to introduce a dozen colectors of ethnography, active between 1770 and 1990 in Britain.

The essays in this volume distill the exciting exchanges that took place on that occasion.

This text provides an introduction to the vast cultural and linguistic diversity of native North America.