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1897 antique NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ethnology snake ceremony cliff dweller mayan
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This listing is for the large hardcover, cloth over book shown, measures approx 8"x11.5". Includes many plates and a color folding map of Canyon de Chelly.

"Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1894-'95" is a 326 page (plus cxix and 81 plates) edited by John Wesley Powell and published in 1897 by the Smithsonian Institution.

It contains the following individual sections about various aspects of Native American culture:

1. Primitive Trephining in Peru (Manuel Antonio Muniz and W. J. McGee)
2. Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona (Cosmos Mindeleff)
3. Day Symbols of the Maya Year (Cyrus Thomas) 4. Tusayan Snake Ceremonies (Jesse Walter Fewkes)

Some of the many topics
The cipaulovi snake ceremony, antelope alter, ceremonies on the day called totokya, antelope dance, snake race/dance
The Cunopavi snake ceremony
Oraibi snake ceremony
old villages on open sites, farming shelters

There are 81 plates, and 83 figures in the text.

Owned by Thomas Chew Washington of Baltimore, Maryland as handwritten on title page. Also blind library stamp on bottom right corner of page.

Authentic period piece related to family, history or local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition. Vintage or Antique.

CONDITION: Complete and intact. Starting to show separation at inside hinges and WILL most likely split more from age; current areas have been reinforced/repaired. Light scuffs on cover. See listing description and photos.

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