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AZ - 1887 - Bureau of Ethnology, Navajo, Cherokee and Zuni 1883-1884 (Fifth Annual Report)

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AZ - 1887 - Bureau of Ethnology, Navajo, Cherokee and Zuni 1883-1884 (Fifth Annual Report)
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Includes papers on the following: 1) Introduction by J.W. Powell with accompanying reports from field work completed 1883-1884, mainly mound explorations from around the country, 2) "The Cherokee Nation of Indians," by Charles C. Royce. Discusses land cessions, several treaties, and general remarks. 3) "The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony," by Dr. Washington Matthews, U.S.A. Discusses myth of origin, days and dances of the ceremony, sacrifices, and texts and translation of songs. 3) "The Seminole Indians of Florida," by Clay MacCauley. Discusses personal characteristics, psychical characteristics, Seminole society, tribal life and the environment. 4) "The Religious Life of the Zuni Child," by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson (Matilda Coxe Evans.) Stevenson became a noted anthropologist after accompanying her husband on geological tours throughout the United States. She worked with the Bureau of Ethnography for six years. After her husband died in 1886, her work continued and she published additional papers [jah.oxfordjournals.org]. With several full color illustrations of dry-paintings and Zuni masks. There is a pocket at back holding two Cherokee Nation maps (both in color and folded.) Hardbound in brown cloth with lettering and illustration of Native Person in gilt. 564 pp. 8" x 10.5".

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