Contributions to North American ethnology. Vol. I-VII, IX. / [Ed. by J.W. Powell]

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902, editor.

Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.)

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

Ethnology--North America.

Ethnology.

North America.

Physical Description:

8 volumes in 9. : illustrations, plates, maps. ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1877-93.

Contents:

I. Tribes of the extreme Northwest. By W.H. Dall. Tribes of western Washington and northwestern Oregon. By Geo. Gibbs. 1877.

II. The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon, by Albert Samuel Gatschet. 2 v. 1890.

III. Tribes of California. By Stephen Powers. 1877.

IV. Houses and house-life of the American aborigines, by Lewis H. Morgan. 1881.

V. [pt. 1] Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculptures in the Old world and in America, by Charles Rau. 1881. [pt. 2] On prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets, by Robert Fletcher. 1882. [pt. 3] A study of the manuscript Troano, by Cyrus Thomas. 1882.

VI. The Cegiha language. By James Owen Dorsey. 1800.

VII. A Dakota-English dictionary, by Stephen Return Riggs; ed. by James Owen Dorsey. 1890.

IX. Dakota grammar, texts and ethnography, by Stephen Return Riggs; ed. by James Owen Dorsey. 1893.

Notes:

At head of title: Department of the Interior. U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. J.W. Powell in charge.

After 1879 published under supervision of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Vol. 8 not published. cf. List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1913, p. xvi.

OCLC:

610806