Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology 1893-1894

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Author: Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902) [editor] from the library of Dr David H Snow Year: 1897 Publisher: Government Printing Office Place: Washington, DC Description: cxxi+366 pages with frontispiece, 125 plates, 49 figures and index. Quarto (11 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's olive green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial to cover. Papers by William Henry Holmes, Stone implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake tidewater province page 3-152, plates I-CIII and frontispiece, figures 1-29a; W J McGeen, The Siouxan Indians: A preliminary sketch , pages 153-204; James Owen Dorsey, Siouxan sociology: A posthumous paper , pages 205-244 and figures 30-38; Jesse Walter Fewkes, Tusayan katcinas , pages 245-313 plates CIV-CXI and figures 39-48; Cosmos Mindeleff, The repair of Casa Grande ruin, Arizona, in 1891 pages 315-349 and plates CXII-CXXV. Edited by J W Powell. (List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology pgs 5-6) From the library of David H Snow . First edition. Although classified by most conventional texts, John Wesley Powell always maintained that he was not an adventure or an explorer. He considered himself a scientist, motivated by a desire for knowledge and to further the progress of human kind. However, Powell did live a busy and active life as a military leader, the first navigator of the Colorado River, and director of the United States Geological Survey. His accounts from navigating the Colorado River earned him early fame. Due to hi

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