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3503Washington. Smithsonian Institution. GPO. Hardcover. 1903. 4to. 29cm ccxxiv237p. plus 177 plates including many colour plates many text illustrations index original olive green cloth bump on the spine which includes a small tear else a fine copy s12.2 CONTAINS: "Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States" by W.H. Holmes. pp1-237 - Very important and detailed study of the Pottery of the Eastern Indians. Washington. Smithsonian Institution. GPO hardcover
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188334517Berlin: Verlag von A.Asher & Co. 1883. First Edition. With 13 plates on strong heavy paper-board the first 5 of which are chromo-lithographic the following 8 with photographic illustrations and each with a sheet describing the plate illustration. Folio 52 x 38 cm. publisher's original half-linen portfolio folder with printed cover describing and titling the work. 2 sheets Title and foreword by A. Bastian. 13 pages of text Internally the copy is fine with very little evidence of use or of wear the plates are all in fine condition the text leaves with some evidence of old damp at the border not affecting the text wear to the portfolio covers. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT ILLUSTRATED WORK ON THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA. The wonderful lithographic panels were created with the advice and assistance of Alphons Stübel and Wilhelm Reiss who had recently published their magnificent work on the Dead Field of Ancon also with Asher. They depict the ceremonial and ethnologically and anthropologically interesting masks bowls implements and objects created by the Native American tribes of the area.<br> Captain Adrian Jacobsen was sent to the northwest coast of America for payment of 5000 RM. On instructions from Adolf Bastian he traveled from San Francisco to the west coast of North America including Arizona until 1882. In the summer of 1882 July 30 1882 he set off on an expedition to Alaska. After a total of three and a quarter years Jacovsen returned to Berlin on November 23 1883. Verlag von A.Asher & Co. unknown
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2003DADAX0766139336Kessinger Publishing 2003-02-05. paperback. New. 8.14x1.15x10.98. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
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1911390449Washington DC : Government Printing Office 1911. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Very good copies in the original blind-bordered decorated gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. The set remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm. Contents: Volume 27th: 1905-1906 published 1911 ; Volume 29th: 1907-1908 published 1916; Volume 31st: 1909-1910 published 1916. Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology; Periodicals; Ethnology North America; Periodicals; Antiquities; Americas - General; Ethnology Periodicals. Washington, DC : Government Printing Office hardcover
elala3603Washington: 1881-1933. A valuable source of information for native American ethnology archaeology and linguistics. The Bureau of American Ethnology originally the Bureau of Ethnology to 1897 was established in 1879 by the US government for the purpose of transferring archives records and materials relating to native Americans from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. The founding director John Wesley Powell broadened its mission to incorporate the promotion and organization of anthropological research in America. In addition to organizing field research projects the Bureau prepared exhibits for expositions collected anthropological artifacts for the Smithsonian United States National Museum acted as the official repository of documents concerning American Indians collected by the various US geological surveys including the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region and the Geological Survey of the Territories and developed a manuscript repository library and graphics section that included photographic work. Among the Bureauís staff were some of America's earliest field anthropologists including Frank Hamilton Cushing James Owen Dorsey Jesse Walter Fewkes Alice Cunningham Fletcher John N.B. Hewitt Francis LaFlesche Cosmos and Victor Mindeleff James Mooney John Stevenson and Matilda Coxe Stevenson. Important twentieth century anthropologists included Neil Judd John Peabody Harrington a linguist who spent more than 40 years documenting endangered languages and William C. Sturtevant. The Bureau also supported the work of many non-Smithsonian researchers known as collaborators notably Franz Boas Frances Densmore Garrick Mallery Washington Matthews Paul Radin Cyrus Thomas and T.T. Waterman. numerous plates some colour & maps some folding. bound in 54 volumes. 44 vols in original cloth 4 in original wrs 2 in contemporary half-leather 2 in contemporary calf 2 in modern buckram condition varies: details available upon request Washington: 1881-1933 hardcover