Title: Twenty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology Author: Powell, J.W. Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1903 Description: xl, 360 pp. Color lithograph plates; large folding map. (4to) original green cloth, with gilt illustration of a native person on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Contains the famous chromolithographic plates of Hopi Kachinas painted by three Hopi artists. In addition to the report to the director, there are two papers of ethnological importance, Hopi Kachinas and Iroquoian Cosmology. The section, "Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists" by Jesse Walter Fewkes, relates to supernatural beings of the Hopi pantheon known as kachinas. Perhaps the most colorful and sought-after of the BAE reports. Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly rubbed and bumped at volume edges; a few rubberstamps to front free endpaper; very good. Item number: 245155
Title: Twenty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology Author: Powell, J.W. Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1903 Description: xl, 360 pp. Color lithograph plates; large folding map. (4to) original green cloth, with gilt illustration of a native person on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Contains the famous chromolithographic plates of Hopi Kachinas painted by three Hopi artists. In addition to the report to the director, there are two papers of ethnological importance, Hopi Kachinas and Iroquoian Cosmology. The section, "Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists" by Jesse Walter Fewkes, relates to supernatural beings of the Hopi pantheon known as kachinas. Perhaps the most colorful and sought-after of the BAE reports. Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly rubbed and bumped at volume edges; a few rubberstamps to front free endpaper; very good. Item number: 245155
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