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Title: Annual Report of the Bureau of [American] Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution - ten volumes, plus two bulletins Author: Powell, John Wesley ed. Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1887-1921 Description: 10 volumes, including: Fifth Annual Report: 1883-84. Double-page color plates of Native American paintings, and 2 loose large folding maps in rear pocket. 1887. * Sixth Annual Report: 1884-85. 2 loose large folding maps in rear pocket. 1888. * 2 copies of: Eleventh Annual Report: 1889-90. With color lithograph plates. Both in half morocco and boards, gilt lettered spines. 1894. * Fourteenth Annual Report: 1892-93: Part I only. 1896. * Sixteenth Annual Report: 1894-95. 1897. * Twenty-third Annual Report: 1901-1902. Color lithograph plates. 1904. * Twenty-fourth Annual Report: 1902-1903. Color lithograph plates including frontispiece. 1907. * Twenty-fifth Annual Report: 1913-1914. Part 2 only. 1921. * Forty-first Annual Report: 1919-1924. Lacks title page. [1930?]. All but two volumes are in the original green cloth with gilt vignette of Native American on front covers, gilt-lettered spines. Each profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs, plus some with loose folding maps. A lovely collection containing the study of various American indigenous people. Important monographs containing illustrations, several in color, of tools, dress, and other customs. The lot also includes two bulletins bound in uniform green cloth with uniform gilt-lettered spines: Boas, Franz. Kathlamet Texts. Bulletin 26. 1901. * Boas, Franz. Tsimshian Texts. Bulletin 27. 1902. All together 12 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: Edges rubbed, some small tearing or fraying at spine ends; some hinges tender or cracked; contents are clean and near fine for the most part; very good overall. Item number: 231334