Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smit hsonian Institution 1884-'85. ex-lib

Descripción

POWELL, J. W. Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1884-'85. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. Pp. 675. Illustrated. 4to, brown textured cloth, gilt titles to spine. Contains: "Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui" by William H. Holmes; "A Study of the Textile Art in the Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament" by Willaim H. Holmes; "Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices" by Cyrus Thomas; "Osage Traditions" by Rev. J. Owen Dorsey. Of particular interest: Dr. Franz Boas' "The Central Eskimo" (pp. 409-669), a detailed account of the Native inhabitants of the Arctic. Includes the distribution of tribes, their way of life, the importance of the traditional ways, their social and religious life, etc. With more than 500 in text illustrations, several maps and drawings, plus two large folded maps in the rear pouch. Ex-library (bookplate to front paste-down, white numbering to spine), narrow two-inch water stain along the top of the first 20 pp., faint water stain to top edge, light wear to spine ends, small spot to front, else vg. 200.00. N° de ref. del artículo 55112

Contactar al vendedor

Denunciar este artículo

Detalles bibliográficos