Powell, J. W. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96 Part I and Part II (2 volume set). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898. First Edition. [9491]
Two large volumes in green cloth with gilt titles & decoration, slight edge-wear, 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; The set has 85 plates (some are chromolithographs) and 357 illustrations, with 752 clean text pp., index; Vol. II. has a torn front end paper hinge and a nearly-detached front free end paper (blank). Good. Hardcover.
In addition to the normal annual content, these volumes feature:
The Seri Indians, by W. J. McGee.
Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians, by James Mooney.
Navaho Houses, by Cosmo Mindeleff.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895, by Walter J. Fewkes.
John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), b. Mount Morris, NY; US Soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. "He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first known passage through the Grand Canyon...Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey (1881–1894) and proposed policies for development of the arid West which were prescient for his accurate evaluation of conditions. He was director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, where he supported linguistic and sociological research and publications." - wikipedia.
