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Hardcover. Good. G.P.O. 1889 hardcover, with original green cover and gilt decoration and lettering. Cover shows fairly minor edgewear and bumped corners. Pages clean. Binding sound, with a small gouge and scratch mark on the upper part of the binding.
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Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-'89
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Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1888-89
by Powell, John Wesley
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Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893. Good. Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1888-89, John Wesley Powell, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1893, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, 822 pp. Dark olive green boards with gilt stamped illustration of an Indigenous person in a feathered headdress to front, gilt stamped lettering to spine, and blind stamped border to front and back boards. Spine and all corners bumped, moderately rubbed; light scuffing to front and back boards; top edge of text block and endpapers lightly foxed. Good condition. The United States Congress established the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879. Directed by surveyor, geologist, and U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell, the Bureau collected European-American knowledge about Indigenous nations, motivated by the false "vanishing race" theory that Indigenous cultures and ways of life were naturally fading out of existence - though in reality they were being displaced by…
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