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ABORIGINAL AMERICAN HARPOONS: A Study in the Ethnic Distribution and Invention
Pages 189-349, plus 19 plates & 92 text illustrations. Published In THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ...FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900. Report of the U. S. National Museum. Washington:Government Printing Office. 1902. 738pp. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Only library marks are bookplate inside front cover and pocket on inside rear board. No other library marks or stamps. In very good condition. Other articles included are William Henry Holmes: Anthropological Studies in California; Alfred E. Hippisley:A Sketch of the History of the Ceramic Art in China, with a Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains ; Wirt Tassin:Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Gems in the U.S. National Museum as well as his Descriptive Catalogue of the Metorite Collection in the U.S. National Museum.
$150.00
HUMAN NATURE WRIT LARGE : A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIC SURVEY AND WESTERN ANTHROPOLOGY
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (1939). 484 pp. Dust jacket intact with moderate foxing. Boards clean with only slight bumping to edge points. Foxing on endpapers and edges, Otherwise, very good copy in a good dust jacket.
$18.50
ADDITIONAL STUDIES OF THE ARTS, CRAFTS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE GUIANA INDIANS. WITH SPECIAL REFERECE TO THOS OF SOUTHERN BRITISH GUIANA (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 91)
Washington:Government Printing Office. 1929. xvii+110pp. Illustrated, including 6 color plates. Hardcover. Green boards lighlty soiled and shelfworn with scuffing to spine stip and gilt completely rubbed. Light shelfwear along edges with spine ends worn. Internally, end pages slighlty age-toned, but otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. A very good, clean copy.
$25.00
AINSI PARLAIENT NOS ANCETRES...ESSAI D'ETHNOHISTOIRE "WAYAPI" (Travaux et Documents de l'Orstom No. 148)
Paris:Orstom. 1982. viii+408pp. Illustrated. Softcover with dust jacket. Aside from a Library of Congress stamp to the copyright page, and light soiling to page edges, a very good, clean condition inside and out with a very good, slightly edgeworn dust jacket.
$50.00
ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76)
1.Cave Explorations in the Ozark Region of Central Missouri. 2.Cave Explorations in Other States. 3. Explorations Along the Missouri River Bluffs in Kansas and Nebraska. 4. Aboriginal House Mounds. 5. Archeological Work in Hawaii. Washington:Government Printing Office. 1922. 204pp. Illustrated with 45 plates, including 1 folding map, and 37 text figures. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with spine darkened and gilt quite dulled. Light wear along edges, spine ends and edge points gently bumped. Internally, end-pages lightly age toned but otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
$25.00
EARLY MAN IN SOUTH AMERICA (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 52)
Washington:Government Printing Office. 1919. 79pp+33pp plates. Illustrated. Hardcover. Green boards lighlty soiled and shelfworn with gilt on spine strip almost completely rubbed. Light shelfwear along edges with spine ends worn. Internally, end pages lighlty age-toned but otherwise free of previous owners marks or signatures. Paper throughout is lightly age-toned but clean. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
$30.00
GANGA IN JAMAICA. A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF CHRONIC MARIHUANA USE (New Babylon Studies in Social Sciences. 26)
Paris:Mouton & Co., Publishers. (1975). xx+205pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Aside from a penciled previous owners name to 1st free end page, a very good, clean copy inside and out. Dust jacket in vey good condition with wear to edges including some tears and creases.
$50.00
OBSERVATIONS ON THE THUNDER DANCE OF THE BEAR GENS OF THE FOX INDIANS (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 89)
Washington:Government Printing Office. 1929. v+73pp. Hardcover. Green boards lighlty soiled and shelfworn with gilt on spine strip almost completely rubbed. Light shelfwear along edges with spine ends worn. Internally, end pages slighlty age-toned, but otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. A very good, clean copy.
$20.00
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE LENAPE OR DELAWARES, AND OF THE EASTERN INDIANS IN GENERAL (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 62)
Washington:Government Printing Office. 1916. 130pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Green boards lighlty soiled and shelfworn with gilt on spine strip quite dulled. Light shelfwear along edges with spine ends worn. Internally, end pages lighlty age-toned but otherwise free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
$30.00
PROPER PEASANTS. Traditional Life in A Hungarian Village (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, Number 46)
Chicago:Aldine Publishing Company. (1969). 1st edition. xiii+440pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition with no previous owners marks or signatures. Dust jacket is also in very good condition, but with some wear to edges and a small tear to the bottom of the spine end. *"A description and analysis of Hungarian peasant life providing new evidence for the comparative study of social organization and institutions."
$25.00
SOME DEPENDENT PEOPLES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
New York:The Macmillan Company. 1954. 535pp. Ex-library copy. Hardcover. Binding is lightly worn, though significantly cocked, with library barcodes at the bottom of the spine and top corner of the front board. Internally clean and free of stray markings outside of a library bookplate on the inside front board and some blind stamping to the title-page and some notations in pencil on the verso. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$15.00
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAY OF LIFE. VALUES AND IDEALS OF A MULTI-RACIAL SOCIETY.
New York:Columbia University Press. 1953. ix+200pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy in a near very good slight soiled and shelf-worn at edges dust jacket.
$12.00
TUBERCULOSIS AMONG CERTAIN INDIAN TRIBES OF THE UNITED STATES (Smithsonian Institution Bureau American Ethnology)
Washington:Government Printing Office. (1909). vii+48pp+22 plates. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear along edges and gilt on spine dulled. Internally end-pages age toned with light foxing to first few pages, otherwise clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. Overall, a very good copy.
$25.00
VILLAGES OF THE ALGONQUIAN, SIOUAN, AND CADDOAN TRIBES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 77)
Washington:Government Printing Office. 1922 x+211pp.Illustrated. Hardcover. Green boards lighlty soiled and shelfworn with spine strip darkened and gilt quite dulled. Spine strip and edges show evidence of silverfish damage and there is an old small sticker to the upper left front board with the designation Z 37. Internally, a very good, clean copy aside from a ink checkmark to the top outer edge of the title page and a stamp from a previous owner to the bottom edge of title page. The binding is tight with hinges intact. Overall, a very good, clean copy.
$45.00