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Goddard, Pliny Earle . POTTERY OF THE SOUTHWEST INDIANS
NY 1931. Guide Leaflet No. 73, American Museum of Natural History. Octavo, 30pp., illustrations, wraps. VG plus. (a18639x)
$20.00Stirling, M. W;. SNAKE BITES AND THE HOPI INDIAN SNAKE DANCE
Washington 1942 Smithsonian Report. Octavo, pp. 551-555, 1 plate, wraps. VG. (a20055)
$20.00 Fenton, William N.; Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch . THE IROQUOIS EAGLE DANCE AN OFFSHOOT OF THE CALUMET DANCE; AN ANALYSIS OF THE IROQUOIS EAGLE DANCE AND SONGS
Washington. Two titles bound together in Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 156. Octavo, 324pp., 28 plates, folding map, index, wraps. VG. (a44749)
$35.00 List, George . STABILITY AND VARIATION IN HOPI SONG
Philadelphia 1993 first edition American Philosophical Society. Hardcover. 4to., 99pp., index, cloth. Good, small snag on lower spine end. (a44912)
$27.00 Radin, Paul . THE TRICKSTER A STUDY IN AMERICAN INDIAN MYTHOLOGY
NY 1956 Philosophical Library. 8vo., 211pp., blue cloth. VG, in VG DJ. (a45071)
$25.00 Gifford, Edward Winslow . MIWOK MYTHS
Berkeley 1926. University of California American Archeology and Ethnology Volume 12 No. 8. Lg.8vo., pp.283-338, wraps. Owner name stamp and label on front cover. VG. (a45910)
$45.00 Barrett, S. A. . MYTHS OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA MIWOK
Berkeley 1919. University of California American Archeology and Ethnology Volume 16 No. 1. Lg.8vo., pp.1-28., wraps. Owner name stamp and label on front cover. Good. (a45912)
$45.00 Russell, John (J.R.) . THE PIASA AN INDIAN TRADITION OF ILLINOIS
NY 1836. An Indian Legend created and popularized by Russell. Two pages (single leaf), removed from The Family Magazine, or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge (1836), and bound in later wraps. Good, some foxing. (a56856)
$45.00Brinton, Daniel G.. THE LENAPE AND THEIR LEGENDS; WITH THE COMPLETE TEXT AND SYMBOLS OF THE WALAM OLUM
Philadelphia 1885. Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature, Number V. Hardcover. Large octavo, 262pp., text illustrations, index, original black cloth with new paper spine. Good plus, cover tips slightly bent inward, some offsetting on the series title (precedes title page) from a label (in Spanish) tipped onto the verso of the front free blank, uneven fading on covers. Binding secure. Text clean but slightly evenly toned. No owner marks. (a57327)
$75.00 Swanton, John R . TLINGIT MYTHS AND TEXTS
Washington 1909 1st GPO. Bureau of american Ethnology Bulletin 39. Hardcover. Octavo, 451pp., tan buckram. Institution stamps on fore-edges, a few internal stamps, faint residue of spine label. Good, inner hinges cracking, corners gently bumped. (a75373)
$30.00 Thompson, Stith . TALES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
Cambridge 1929 1st Harvard University. Hardcover. Sm.4to., 386pp., large folding map, red cloth. VG plus in Good DJ, a bit browned and chipped. (a76371)
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