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Buy this book on-line Powell, J. W. [editor] : First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-'80Govenment Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1881
xxxiii, 603 pages; illustrations (all complete), folding map (detached) ; index; green cloth binding with gilt letterings and design. Wear to the bottom of the boards, with evidence of some splitting of the spine on the inside. Papers Included: Report of the Director by J.W. Powell; "On the Evolution of Language" by J.W. Powell; "Wyandot Government" by J.W. Powell; "On Limitation to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data" by J.W. Powell; "A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians" by H.C. Yarrow; "Studies in Central American Picture Writing" by E.S. Holden; "Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States" by C.C. Royce; "Sign Language Among North American Indians" by Garrick Mallery; "Catalogue of Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Ethnology" by J.C. Pilling; and "Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages" from the Manuscripts of Messrs. J.O. Dorsey, A.S. Gatschet, and S.R. Riggs. Very good clean copy.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: Cloth Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Powell, J. W. [editor] : First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-'80. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, antiquarian books, libri rari, libri antichi and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |