Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico
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Author: Hodge, Frederick Webb, editor
Title: Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Government Printing Office
Date Published: 1907; 1910
Description:
Author: Hodge, Frederick Webb, editor
Title: Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Government Printing Office
Date Published: 1907; 1910
Description:
2 volumes. ix, 972; iv, 1221 pp. With large colored folding map in Volume I of the "Linguistic Families of American Indians," prepared by John Wesley Powell; many text illustrations after photographs and sketches. (8vo) original olive cloth, spines lettered & decorated in gilt. First Edition.
Issued as Bulletin 30 of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. The "Letter of Transmittal" states: "a descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north of Mexico, 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.
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Wear to cloth and rubbing to extremities, spines a bit dull; hinges cracked, small tear in the middle of title page of vol. 1; very good.
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