Powell. Second Annual Report, American Indians, Bureau of Ethnology 1880-81

Powell, J. W. Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-'81. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. First Edition. [9486] Green cloth with gilt titles & decoration, light edge-wear and spotting, 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, contemporary owner's signature inside front cover, 477 clean pp., index. 77 full-page plates (some in color), 714 text illustrations, 2 maps. One small center gathering loose and laid in. Good. Hardcover. In addition to the normal annual content, this volume features:The Cegiha language, by J. O. Dorsey.The Klamath language, by A. S. Gatschet.The Dakota language, by S. R. Riggs.Bibliography of North American philology, by J. C. Pilling.Sign language and pictographs, by Garrick Mallery.Mortuary customs, by H. C. Yarrow.Indian cessions of land, by C. C. Royce.Zuñi fetiches, by F. H. Cushing.Myths of the Iroquois, by E. A. Smith.Animal carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, by H. W. Henshaw.Navaj