Search Results: Native American History & Culture from Lippincott Books

New York: Garland Publishing Inc, 1979. Reprint . Hardcover. VGFN. xvi, 318 pp. Bibliography. Red cloth, spine title gilt. Over 250 illustrations. "deals with the specimens, other than pottery, found at the ruined Indian pueblo of Pecos in San Miguel County, New Mexico during investigations carried on between 1915 and 1925." Minor rubbing at extremeties otherwise Fine. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1966. Hardcover. GVG/GVG. viii, 400 pp. Orange cloth. Map endpapers. Bibliography, index, symbols, maps, and b&w photos. Name on ffep in red ink, notes on verso, ffep and half-title, and along margins of many pages; slightly musty. Dustjacket is lightly soiled, with edge wear.

Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1970. First Edition . Paperbound. GVG. ix, 142 pp. Review copy with slip taped to ffep. 2 maps, bibliography, and index. Previous owner's name on ffep. Margin notes pp. 11-44. The notes, and a comment on the inside front cover, indicate that the professor who owned the book did not think the author had provided enough support for his claims of tribal population levels. Soiled on back cover, else very good.

St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1908. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. xx, 827 pp. Volume XII. With index, illustrated with 38 plates, of which 7 are maps and the remainder portraits or photographs. Articles of interest include: The Dakotas/Sioux of Minnesota, Little Crow, Civil War Papers by Lucius Hubbard, History of Minnesota Journalism, etc. Black cloth with titles gilt on spine. Black cloth of this era tends to become weak or foxed due to the practice of setting the dye with iron mordants. There is some minor foxing of the cloth, and some pen marks in the table of contents. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. x, 544 pp. With 3 maps and numerous photographs of various Indian chiefs and settlers, soldiers and political figures of Texas. With extensive notes, bibliography and index. Minor nick at top of front board else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

N.p. N.d.. Facsimile . Stiff Paper Wrappers. Fine. Mottled tan paper wrappers. Facsimile of the 1848 edition published by Turner & McCollum, Lockport, N. Y. with a new half-title and new pagination. Facsimilies of the woodcut illustrations precede the text. Cusick was a member of New York's Tuscarora Tribe, one of the Six Nations. Howe's C979.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. lvii, 913, [1] pp. Volume IV: Contains 504 biographies. This was a period of wars over the Maritimes, problems of allegience for Acadians and Indians, and towards the end of the century, the effects of an influx of loyalists escaping the American Revolution. Includes bibliography and indices. Red Cloth and cream dustjacket.

Pine Ridge, South Dakota: Red Cloud Indian School, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. vi, 852 pp. Edited by Paul Manhart, S.J. Includes appendices. Bechel, a German-born Jesuit priest lived and worked with the Lakota Sioux from 1902 until his death in 1954. Work on his dictionary was continued by Rev. John Bryde, and compiled into its present form by Manhart.

Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1856. Hardcover. Good. Edited By E. B. O'Callaghan. xvi, 1006, [2] pp. Brown cloth, spine gilt. Large Quarto. A large number of these documents pertain to correspondence and proceedings between Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations, including transcriptions of meetings with Indian delegates, chiefs and sachems, quoting at length the eloquent Indian speakers. The spine and boards have some general wear and dampstaining but the binding is solid and tight. Photos happily provided. Oversize: overseas & Canadian customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the books will ship at cost.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. Near Fine. Second printing.  xxii, 522 pp.  4to.   Softcover.  With photographs of 24 masks - false faces and husk faces - in color, and numerous b&w photographs of masks, rattles, tree carvings, ceremonial rites. "A monument to Iroquois culture"....."the most definitive, comprehensive treatment of this important and thoroughly fascinating topic that we will ever see." Volume 178 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. Published in cooperation with the Museum of the American Indian. Near Fine.

Washington, D. C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Folio. xii, 598, [3] pp. Smithsonian Contributors to Anthropology, Number 19. With 5 figures and 5 foldout maps and 6 tables. Includes atlas, appendix and references. Laughlin's introduction explains his eliciting techniques including aerial survey maps to establish place names and a system to present ethnographical context for the vocabulary within each identified root. Inscribed to Charles Bell and his wife on the ffep: "For Danny and Charles, 'What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything and a spectacle at public solemnities, and it learns to skip, dance and kneel.' Bob" From the library of Charles Bell. Bell, a writer, poet and scholar, grew up in Greenville, Mississippi with Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land (1962), was praised by William Carlos Williams. His works include three volumes of poetry, two… Read More

Hartford, Connecticut: Wm. Jas. Hammersley. Hardcover. Poor. xxvi, 509, [1] pp. Early printing. With appendices and index. "Best account of this tribe" Howes D216. Sold "as is". Blind stamped brown cloth. Lacks spine cloth, front board loose and back board detached. Missing ffep, title page, folding map and 4 plates. Copies of missing map and title page from the 1852 printing laid in. A reading copy.

Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co, 1974. Paper Wrappers. Very Good+. [vi], 56 pp. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association. Vol. III, No. I. Jan.-Mar., 1916. Blue paper wrappers lightly sunned.

Self-published. Paper Wrappers. GVG. 20 pp with bibliography. Damp-staining to covers and top edges, otherwise tight with very little edge wear. Laid-in articles about Scillon, Shipping Creek Plantation. GVG

Montreal: Leméac, 1971. Soft cover. GVG. 232, [8] pp. With bibliography, appendices. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, tables, maps. Canada Council bookplate, light soiling, light edge wear. Text is in French.

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1915. Paper Wrappers. GVG. 8vo. Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey. Museum Bulletin No. 16. Anthropological Series, No. 6. June 15, 1915. [ii], 52 pp. Lightly soiled, slight water-staining on rear panel.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. xiv, 308 pp. Decorative red cloth. With notes, sources, index, b&w photos, maps. "In 1882 President Chester A. Arthur signed an executive order that created a joint-occupation reservation for both Hopis and western Navajos in present-day Arizona. This policy was the start of a century-long land dispute between the two tribes.

Scituate, MA: Digital Scanning, 2000. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. XII, 303 pp. with appendices. Facsimile of the 1903 edition, new title page follows old one, with 400 illustrations, carefully engraved from the Author's original paintings.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. x, 134 pp. White linen boards over red cloth, titles gilt. With notes, references, index, maps.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1922. Hardcover. GVG. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 75. 213 pp, with index. Plates, folding plate, tables, music. GVG