HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN INDIANS NORTH OF MEXICO
by Hodge, Frederick Webb
Price: $650.00
- Bookseller: McGowan Book Co., Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: STOCK010862I
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Government Printing Office,
- Place: Washington:
- Date published: 1912.
Book Description
Washington:: Government Printing Office,. 1912.. 2 vols. 972;1221 pp., folding map. . Text in double columns. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology Bulletin 30. Volume one is a fourth impression. Volume two is a second impression. This is one of the most valuable compilations of material on the American Indian ever published. It is illustrated throughout with inset photographs and drawings. Original cloth, spine gilt a little dull, else a near fine set; rarely seen in such nice condition due to the size of the individual volumes. "The [alphabetically arranged] handbook contains a descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north of Mexico, accompanied with the various names by which these have been known, together with biographies of Indians of note, sketches of their history, archeology, manners, arts, customs, and institutions, and the aboriginal words incorporated into the English language." HOWES H-556. SOLIDAY I, 1140. .
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