The Graphic Art of the Eskimos; Notes on the Geology and Natural History of the Peninsula of Lower Calfornia; The Antiquity of the Red Race in America; A Collection of Hopi Ceremonial Pigments; The Sculptures of Santa Lucia Cozumahualpa; A Primitive Frame for Weaving Narrow Fabrics; An Early West Virginia Pottery; Pointed Bark Canoes of the Kutenai and Amur - 8 U.S. National Museum Reports bound together
Washington, DC: Smithsonian U. S. National Museum / Government Printing Office, 1895 - 1900.
Hardcover.
Bound compilation of 8 reports from the U.S. National Museum printed in Washington by the Government Printing Office 1895-1900.
Hoffman, Walter James. The Graphic Art of the Eskimos Based upon the Collections in the National Museum. (Washington: U.S. National Museum, 1895). pp739-968, 82 plates. A study of artefacts and art of the Inuit people of Alaska.
Merrill, George P. Notes on the Geology and Natural History of the Peninsula of Lower California. (USNM, 1895). pp969-994, 10 plates. Observations of the physiography and geology of Baja California made on an expedition conducted by the author in the summer of 1892. The author journeyed from San Diego to San Quentin by boat and by wagon and pack train to El Rosario, continuing across the peninsula to within a few miles of the Gulf Coast.
Wilson, Thomas. The Antiquity of the Red Race in America. (USNM, 1895). pp1039-1045. A treatise on the racial ancestry and cultural homogeneity of indigenous peoples of North America by the author of A Study of Prehistoric Anthropology: A Handbook for Beginners (1890).
Hough, Walter. A Collection of Hopi Ceremonial Pigments. (USNM, 1900). pp463-471. A catalogue of 29 pigments and dyes used by the Hopi in a variety of contexts with a discussion of their usage and and significance.
Strebel, Herman. The Sculptures of Santa Lucia Cozumahualpa, Guatemala, In the Hamburg Ethnological Museum. (USNM, 1899). pp549-561, 11 plates. A discussion of 13 figures (photographed on 11 plates) of sculptures of the Cotzumalhuapa peoples of Guatemala from the Pre-Columbian Maya period purchased by Prof. Ad. Bastian for the Royal Ethnological Museum of Berlin in 1876. Photographs are of plaster casts of these sculptures then in the U. S. Natural History Museum.
Mason, Otis Tufton. A Primitive Frame for Weaving Narrow Fabrics. (USNM, 1899). pp487-510, 9 plates. The author examines the construction and use of primitive looms by weavers around the world – from Italy to New England and beyond, with special attention paid to the heddle looms of the American Pueblo.
Hough, Walter. An Early West Virginia Pottery. (USNM, 1901). pp513-521,18 plates. An examination of the production and development of earthenware pottery produced in what is now Morgantown, West Virginia during the first half of the 19th century. Pottery of the region has characteristic and innovative elements in terms of form and decoration.
Mason, Otis T. Pointed Bark Canoes of the Kutenai and Amur, With Notes on the Kutenai Canoe by Meriden S. Hill. (USNM 1899). pp523-537, 5 plates. Pointed bark canoes are unique to the Western Hemisphere. The pointed pine-bark canoes of the Kutenai of Canada and dug-out and birch-bark canoes of the Amur of East Asia are unique from those used in other areas and similar to one another. The two are discussed and compared here.
Item #9014926 x 9”, three-quarter red leather, red cloth over thick boards, multiply paginated (over 460 total pages), fully illustrated throughout.
Moderate edge-wear and spine-fading to leather, bookplate removed first paste-down endpaper, ink owner's name and date (1905) first free endpaper, 1-1/2" split front endpaper hinge at heel, tight, internally clean, very good overall.
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