Author: Powell, John Wesley (Director)
Title: First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1879- 80 to the Secretary of the Smithsonial Institution.
Description: Government Printing Office, 1881. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original cloth covers are heavily worn at extremities. Front cover is spattered with tiny white dots of unknown origin. A couple of pages are loose, all appear to be present. Back hinge is cracked, binding is otherwise tight. Contents are excellent. Pages are clean, bright, and free of marks and foxing. Book includes several shorter articles, some by John Wesley Powell himself. The two longer, book-length, articles are "A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians," by H. C. Yarrow; and "Sign Language Among North American Indians," by Col. Garrick Mallery. Both articles are profusely illustrated. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 603 pages. S5. Good.

Keywords: Ethnology American Indians