Publication Date: 1891
Seller: Antiq. F.-D. Söhn - Medicusbooks.Com, Marburg, Germany
First Edition
Annual Report 8 of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887. - Ed. Dir. J.W. Powell. - Washington, Goverment Printing Office, 1891, 4°, XXXVI, 298 pp., 118 Abb., 124 Taf., orig. Leinenband. First Edition! Content of the Accompanying papers: Mindeleff, Victor: A Study of Pueblo Architecture, Tusayan and Cibola. Stevenson, James: Ceremonial of Hasjelti Daliljis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians. "In the 1880s, Victor Mindeleff (1860-1948) was employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology to conduct studies of Pueblo architecture. He hired His brother, Cosmos Mindeleff (1863-1938), to be his assistant. They worked at Zuni, Acoma, and Hopi villages, as well as among the Navajo; at ruins at Kin Tiel, Canyon de Chelly, and Chaco Canyon; and at Etowah Mound in Georgia. Victor Mindeleff left the BAE in 1890 for a career in architecture." Smithsonian Institution.