Rare lot of 8 antique publications/hardcover books from the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), Smithsonian Institution, Washington Government Printing Office. Deaccessioned from Utah university libraries (stamps from Utah State Agricultural College and Brigham Young College). Published between 1901 and 1915.

Includes Annual Reports and Bulletins featuring landmark studies by some of the most important names in American anthropology and linguistics.

Contents:

• 27th Annual Report, 1905-06 — The Omaha Tribe, by Alice Fletcher & Francis LaFlesche (2 copies; one olive green cloth, one tan cloth — both showing wear)

• 28th Annual Report, 1906-07 — Casa Grande Ruins, Arizona + Algonquian linguistics

• 29th Annual Report, 1907-08 — The Tewa Indians of New Mexico, by J.P. Harrington

• 30th Annual Report, 1908-09 — Pawnee Indians

• 35th Annual Report, 1913-14, Part 2 — Ethnology of the Kwakiutl, by Franz Boas

• Bulletin 25 — Natick Dictionary, by James Hammond Trumbull, 1903

• Bulletin 26 — Kathlamet Texts, by Franz Boas, 1901

Condition: Poor to Acceptable/Good — honest description appropriate for age (110-125 years old). Olive green cloth covers with gold-stamped Native American portrait motif. Spine wear, tape remnants, library stamps and labels, tanning/foxing to page edges, corner wear. A couple have further issues - see photos. Text blocks generally intact and readable. These are working research copies, not display pieces.

Two volumes by Franz Boas, father of American anthropology. The Omaha Tribe study by Fletcher & LaFlesche is considered a foundational work in Native American ethnography.

Sold as a lot. Heavy — buyer pays actual media mail shipping via USPS. Local pickup welcome (Ogden, Utah).

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