Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Bureau Of American Ethnology Bulletin 30. Frederick Webb Hodge (editor)

Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Bureau Of American Ethnology Bulletin 30.

Author	Frederick Webb Hodge (Editor)
Publisher	Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1907 - 1910
Edition	1
Weight	4100 gram
CF
Keywords	Indians, Native Americans, Apache, Pueblo, Eskimo, Navaho, Choctaw, Sioux, Mound Builders, Algonquin, Prairie Indians, Shamans, Sun dance, Peyote
Booknumber	20452
Category's	Travel & Geography (North America) Travel & Geography (Ethnology & Antropology) History & Archaeology (Archeology) History & Archaeology (Prehistory) Culture History (Folklore) Sociology (Upbringing & Pregnancy) History & Archaeology (North America) History & Archaeology (Polar area) History & Archaeology (Pre-Columbian) History & Archaeology (17th Century) History & Archaeology (18th Century) History & Archaeology (19th Century) History & Archaeology (20th Century)
Lge-8vo (16,5 x 24 cm). Pp. 972 & 1221 + 1 col. fold. map (47 x 56 cm). Uniform green publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Smithsonian Institution Bureau Of American Ethnology Bulletin 30. The scope of this comprehensive work is a treatment of all tribes north of Mexico, including the Eskimo. Every linguistic stock, confederacy, tribe, subtribe or tribal division, and settlement known to history or even to tradition, is given a brief description by different authors. The tribal descriptions include a brief account of its ethnic relations, its history, its location at various periods, statistics of population etc. Contributors to this rich work were a.o. Franz Boas, Alfred L. Kroeber, Frank H. Cushing, Herbert E. Bolton, J. Walter Fewkes, Otis T. Mason, Ales Hrdlicka, Charles F. Lummis, D.I. Bushnell, Edward Sapir, Frank Huntington, J.W. Powell and Paul Radin. The editor, Frederick Webb Hodge (1864 �1956) was an anthropologist and archaeologist, who worked at the Smithsonian Institution since 1901, later joined the Bureau of American Ethnology where he stayed until 1918 and then moved to the Museum of the American Indian. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs and text-figures and a coloured folding map of America depicting the geographic location of the different linguistic families. With an extensive list of synonyms (158 pages) and a bibliography (43 pages). Both volumes very good and tight copies, apart from a slight wear to edges of spine cloth of vol. 2.
Prijs	� 140.00

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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Bureau Of American Ethnology Bulletin 30.

Frederick Webb Hodge (Editor)