The Hi-Lead: Chromolithographs of Hopi Kachinas

04/01/2009

Powell, J. W.

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology...1893–'94

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1897

A volume in the Smithsonian Institutions' exceptional 48-year series on Native American culture.

$125

This book includes the following reports:

"Stone Impelemnts of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Province" by William Henry Holmes

"The Siouan Indians" by W. J. McGee

"Siouan Sociology" by James Owen Dorsey

"Tusayan Katcinas" by Jesse Walter Fewkes; and

"The Repair of the Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona" by Cosmos Mindeleff.

Illustrated with 125 plates and 48 in-text figures. Six of the color plates are exceptional chromolithographs of Hopi Kachinas.

Near fine in lightly scuffed olive green cloth binding stamped in gilt.

$125

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