Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1897 - 98 (In two Parts - Part 2)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Hardcover. Ex library. 4to. 577-1160 pp. Gilt-stamped olive cloth and spine. An annual report on various aspects of Native American life, compiled by the Bureau of Ethnology. Delightfully illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions and a few color plates, one in fold-out. Library number in white near tail of spine, library plates and stamp on free front endpaper, one small stamp on title-page. Minor age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Foxing on page 1060, other pages clean. Binding in good, interior in very good condition. g. Item #22192
John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was a American geologist and ethnologist. His efforts towards the reorganization of rival surveys in the West were a factor in bringing about the establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey (1879), of which he served as a director from 1881 to 1894. In 1879, Powell founded and became the first director of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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