[Native American]

39th-41st Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution [3 volumes]

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1928. First editions. 3 vols, thick and heavy 4tos illustrated with plates, photos, maps, diagrams throughout and bound in publisher's olive cloth with gilt illustration and lettering to front covers and spines. Ownership signatures at front, couple instances of fraying to edges of cloth, few minor marks and scuffs. Generally very good or better.

3 nice volumes of these important reports, copiously illustrated with engravings and covering the years 1917-1924.  Much on basket weaving in the tribes of the British Columbia region, Fox tribal culture, society, and mythology, and the Osage Rite of Vigil, with musical samples, etc.   

. Item #8448

Price: $150.00