Publicado por Government Printing Office, Washington D. C., 1919
Librería: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No dust jacket. First Impression. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed olive-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 677, indexed. Illustrated with 13 b-w halftone plates and xxx sketches, &tc. incorporated within the text. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Accompanying papers include: Uses of Plants by Indians of the Missouri River Heights" byMelvin Randolf Gilmore, "Preliminary Report of the Antiquities of the Region between the Mancos and La Plata Rivers in Southwestern Colorado" by Earl H. Morris, "Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery" by Jesse Walter Fewkes and "The Hawaiian Romance of Laiekawai" by Martha Warren Beckwith. . Beckwith graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1893 and taught English at Elmira College, Mount Holyoke, Vassar College, and Smith College. In 1906, she obtained a Master of Arts degree in anthropology after studying under Franz Boas at Columbia University, and she received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1918.[2] In 1920, Beckwith was appointed to the chair in Folklore at Vassar College, making her the first person to hold a chair in Folklore at any college or university in the United States. In exceptionally good condition.