Contributions to North American ethnology : Vol. I-VII, IX [edited y J.W. Powell]

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902.

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.

Physical Description:

8 v. in 9 : ill., plates, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1877-1893.

Contents:

v. I. Tribes of the extreme Northwest / by W.H. Dall. Tribes of western Washington and northwestern Oregon / by Geo. Gibbs

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

v. III. Tribes of California / by Stephen Powers

v. IV. Houses and house-life of the American aborigines / by Lewis H. Morgan

v. V. Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculptures in the Old world and in America / by Charles Rau. On prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets / by Robert Fletcher. A study of the manuscript Troano / by Cyrus Thomas

v. VI. The Cegiha language / by James Owen Dorsey

v. VII. A Dakota-English dictionary / by Stephen Return Riggs ; edited by James Owen Dorsey

v. IX. Dakota grammar, texts and ethnography / by Stephen Return Riggs ; edited by James Owen Dorsey.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

OCLC:

610806