California Indian Characteristics & Centennial Mission to the Indians of Western Nevada and California

Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First book edition. Preface by N. Scott Momaday. [6], 57pp. Color frontis, five photographic plates, portrait, facsimile. Stiff red wrappers. A fine copy. Reprints two articles by this nineteenth-century anthropologist, best known for his "Tribes of California," published in 1877. California Indian Characteristics was first published in the Overland Monthly, 1875; Centennial Mission... was first published the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1876. Also includes "Stephen Powers as Anthropologist" by Robert F. Heizer. Number 23 in the series of keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members..