Thirty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1916, Very Good

Bureau of American Ethnology, et al. Thirty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1909-1910 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1916).

English, Very Good, HC, 4to, 11 3/4" x 8 1/4," 1037 pp., including illustrations and Bibliography, + plates.

ISBN: N/A

Very Good olive-green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations on spine and gilt decoration of an Indigenous man on front. Covers have slight wear to extremities and outer joints, light age toning, a small white stain on back, and handwriting in black pen on spine that reads, "Tsimsian Myths, Boas," else clean and intact. Binding is somewhat loosened (most noticeable along inner hinges) but still strong and holding. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Black-and-white illustrations and a few black-and-white plates included. Part of a series of reports by the Bureau of American Ethnology about Indigenous Peoples in the United States. This report features the myths and culture of the Tsimsian tribe in the Pacific Northwest.