Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1882-'83 (Pictographs of the North American Indians. A Preliminary Paper; Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos; Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley; Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art; A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuni Culture Growth)

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1886. Hardcover. 532pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Olive green cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and gilt stamped designs on the spine and front cover. Fair condition. The extremities are rubbed and scratched. Rebacked with most of the original spine overlaid. Despite the rebacking, much of the backstrip has come away from the spine. The underlying boards are exposed occasionally along the edges. The boards are slightly concave. The front endsheet is lightly soiled and rippled. There is a previous owner's name on the front pastedown. The underlying threads are visible along the hinges, and throughout the pages in the inside margins, as a result of the text block having been cracked multiple times. P. 161 is beginning to detach. Mildly browned pages. The pages are clean. Complete. All plates present. May require extra postage due to weight. Item #33932

Subjects include Researches Among the Moki, Paint on the Human Person, Tattooing in North America, Notice of Departure and Direction, Gentile or Clan Designations, Hidatsa and Dakota Feathers, Shamanism, New Zealand Mortuary Effigies, Errors and Frauds, Vases from Saint George, Vases of Eccentric Form, Vessels Imitating the Human Head, and much more.

Price: $100.00