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Title: Anthropological Papers. Numbers 33 - 42
Description: Washington, D.C. U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1953. orig.wrappers. 23x14cm, ix,507,(37)pp, Series: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 151. Neatly pencilled marks to m. 37pp photoplates. Some rubbing. Spine lightly faded. Good+. ¶ Contains 10 papers. Includes: Edwin Thompson Denig "Of the Crow Nation" [ pages 1-74 + 6pp photoplates; edited with biographical sketch & footnotes by John C. Ewers]; Robert L. Rands "The Water Lily in Maya Art: A Complex of Alleged Asiatic Origin" [pages 75-154]; Louis Capron "The Medicine Bundles of the Florida Seminole & the Green Corn Dance" [pages 155-210 + 10pp photoplates]; Frances Dernsmore "Technique in the Music of the American Indian" [pages 211-216]; Frances Densmore "The Belief of the Indian in a Connection between Song & the Supernatural" [pages 217-224]; Robert F. Heizer "Aboriginal Fish Poisons" [pages 225-284]; Robert F. Heizer & William C. Massey "Aboriginal Navigation off the Coasts of Upper &Baja California" [pages 285-312 + 4pp photoplates]; Ralph S. Solecki " Exploration of an Adena Mound at Natrium, West Virginia" [pages 313-396]; D.B. Shimkin "The Wind River Shoshone Sun Dance" [pages 397-484 + 8pp photoplates]; Fred W. Voget "Current Trends in the Wind River Shoshone Sun Dance" [pages 485-500].

Keywords: New World Ethnography, Archeology, Anthropology, Crow Ethnology, Native Americans, American Indians, Ethnomusicology, Music Fish Poisons, Maya Art Seminole

Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS009285I