First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Smithsonian Institution 1879-80
First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Smithsonian Institution 1879-80
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- Powell J. W.
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- Government Printing Office, 1881
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- Indians Indiani America
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Original cloth, quarto, 603 pp., illus. (many in color). rare First annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, by J. W. Powell, Director. xxxv + 603 pp., 346 figs, (inch 54 pls.), map. 1881. [IA] Report of the Director. Pp. xi-xxxiii. On the evolution of Language, as exhibited in the specialization of the grammatic processes, the differentiation of the parts of speech, and the integration of the sentence; from a study of Indian languages, by J. W. Powell. Pp. 1-16. Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians, by J. W. Powell. Pp. 17-56. Wyandot government: A short study of tribal society, by J. W. Powell. Pp. 57-69. On limitations to the use of some anthropologic data, by J. W. Powell. Pp. 71-86. [Available in separate form.] A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians, by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, act. asst. surg., U.S. A[rmy]. Pp. 87-203, figs. 1-47. Studies in Central American picture-writing, by Edward S. Plolden, professor of mathematics, U.S. Naval Observatory. Pp. 205-245, figs. 48-60. Cessions of land by Indian tribes to the United States: Illustrated by those in the State of Indiana, by C. C. Royce. Pp. 247-262, map. Sign language among North American Indians compared with that among other peoples and deaf-mutes, by Garrick Mallery. Pp. 263-552, figs. 61-346. Catalogue of linguistic manuscripts in the library of the Bureau of Ethnology, by James C. Pilling. Pp. 553-577. Illustration of the method of recording Indian languages. From the manuscripts of Messrs. J. O. Dorsey, A. S. Gatschet, and S. R. Riggs. Pp. 579-589. Index. Pp. 591-603.
