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Annual Report Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology to the Secretary Of The Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881. Illustrated with some color plates that are protected with a tissue sheet and some black & white drawings as well. 477 pages. Measures 11 1/2" x 8". Rare book! NO International Shipping.
Overall condition appears to be good. Seems to cover the Pueblos of New Mexico. This would be an expensive book to produce. Brown publisher's cloth with stamped gilt emblem of Native American Chief with gilt spine titles. 77 plates, figures. 1-35, 347-714 (382 of these forming 98 plates),(some color with tissue guards), 2 maps. plates, maps.
Contents: Powell's Report *** Zuni Fetiches, by Frank Hamilton Cushing; *** Myths of the Iroquois, by Erminnie A. Smith; *** Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi valley, by Henry W. Henshaw; *** Navajo Silversmiths, by Dr. Washington Matthews; *** Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans, by William H. Holmes; *** Illustrated catalogue of the collections obtained from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona in 1879, by James Stevenson; Illustrated catalogue of the collections obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880, by James Stevenson. Background Information: John Wesley Powell, the second Director (1881-1894) of the U.S. Geological Survey, is highly regarded in several fields: as an explorer, geologist, geographer, and ethnologist.
