Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec: October 28th and 29th, 1967

Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (25cm); orange cloth-covered boards with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 185pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and map illustrations throughout. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy.

Collection of essays presented in 1967 at Dumbarton Oaks, including Robert F. Heizer's "New Observations on la Venta", Tatiana Proskouriakoff's "Olmec and Maya Art: Problems of their Stylistic Relation", and Peter T. Furst's "The Olmec Were-Jaguar Motif in Light of Ethnographic Reaity". [87342].