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HARDCOVER. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Quarto; hardcover; 636 pp. Tight binding; interior clean throughout; corners bumped, corners and edges and heavily worn; Good. Contains maps. . The United States Congress established the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879. Directed by surveyor, geologist, and U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell, the Bureau collected European-American knowledge about Indigenous nations, motivated by the false ?vanishing race? theory that Indigenous cultures and ways of life were naturally fading out of existence ? though in reality they were being displaced by the westward expansion of the United States government and European-American settlers. The Bureau of Ethnology gathered thousands of photographs, illustrations, and other documentation of Indigenous cultures until it merged with other divisions of the Smithsonian Institute in the 1960s.?? John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, surveyor and explorer. He is most famous for his 1869 geographic expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers, which resulted in thorough cartographic and scientific documentation of the rivers and surrounding canyon country, including the Grand Canyon. .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good -. No Jacket. First Edition. 636 page report plus the well illustrated accompanying paper - The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians by John Peabody Harrington. Minor wear, some exterior soils, foxing on front endpapers, library loan stamp on flyleaf (no other library markings). Book.

Condizione: Good. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915. 4to. 453 pp. Illus. Good book. Rear board bumped at top edge. Front hinge cracked. (Indians, North America, South America, Guiana, folklore, Zuni, ethnobotany) Inquire if you need further information.

1st edition. [2], 636, [4 (blank)] pp. Many inserted plates of photographic images and maps throughout. 11-1/2" x 8" Moderate wear to binding (edges rubbed, spine darkened). Bookplate to front pastedown. Otherwise, a VG copy. Olive green cloth binding, gilt stamped lettering and design to spine and front board.