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1967 Parke-Bernet Galleries sale catalog, Primitive Art: African, Oceanic, American Indian, Pacific Northwest Coast and Pre-Columbian Art, featuring duplicates from the collection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and the Museum of Primitive Art, New York. Sale Number 2559, held Thursday, May 4, 1967.An important catalog documenting African, Oceanic, Native American, Pacific Northwest Coast and Pre-Columbian works from the Rockefeller and Museum of Primitive Art collections. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and detailed catalog entries.Of particular interest, this copy contains period pencil annotations beside a number of lots, apparently recording prices realized for these pieces at the sale. Examples include handwritten figures alongside illustrated and described works, a few of which are shown in the photographs.Softcover in good vintage condition. There is age and handling wear to the covers, including scattered marks and scratches, along with some age-related wear to the interior. Pencil annotations appear on a number of pages as described above.The catalog measures approximately 7 inches wide by 10 inches tall.A particularly interesting surviving copy of an important 1967 tribal and ethnographic art sale, with strong association to Nelson A. Rockefeller, the Museum of Primitive Art, and Parke-Bernet Galleries.
