Riefenstahl, Leni. The Last of the Nuba by Leni Riefenstahl. First U.S. Edition.

Harper & Row, 1974.  Hardcover in cloth with custom made 4-mil polyester jacket, lacks original dust jacket.  Photographs taken by Riefenstahl between 1962 and 1969 of mostly the Mesakin and some of the Korongo, Nuba tribes in the southwest corner of the Nuba mountains in Kordofan of the Sudan in East Africa.  At the time, there was no all-season road through the region and the Nuba men and women, who generally went out and about without many clothes, lived close to nature with little contact with the outside world. According to the photographer, most of the Mesakin Nuba had never before seen a white woman. The book begins with an essay by Riefenstahl about the social life of the Nuba.  Whatever one may think about Riefenstahl's notorious life in the 1930s, this is an excellently designed and printed book with fascinating photographs in color and black-and-white.