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Bureau of American Ethnology Book 1909-1910

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Bureau of American Ethnology Book 1909-1910
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Thirty-First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Book 1909-1910, measures 11.5''H x 7''W, copyright 1916, has original owner's signature ''Byrdie McNeill'' Stamped from the ''private Library of Byrdie McNeill, No. 700, Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska,(Alaskiana collector) in red pencil inside cover as well as the signature of E. L. Keithan: Edward Linnaeus Keithahn (May 15, 1900 - September 1970) was an American museum curator and the author of a well known book on totem poles, Monuments in Cedar, published in 1945. He became interested in totem poles at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, Washington, in 1909 and later traveled to southeast Alaska and eventually lived there working ''in the Indian service,'' as he put it (meaning perhaps employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs), living mainly among the Tlingit and Haida people. He was Curator and Librarian at the Alaska Historical Library and Museum.