Author: Morgan, Lewis Henry [1818-1881] [ New York State Museum ]
Title: Report..,.Upon the Articles Furnished to the Indian Collection [contained in: New York State Museum "Third Annual Report..,."]
Description: Albany [NY], Weed, Parsons & Co. 1850. boards. 23x14cm, 175,(28) pp, Later (recent) binder's blind boards with a portion of original front cover wrapper bound-in. An embossed stamp to title-page.. 28 engraved plates.. Foxed. Some binding stains. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Third annual report of the Regents of the University, on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, and the historical and antiquarian collection annexed thereto". Morgan's paper, titled "Report to the Regents of the University, upon the articles furnished to the Indian collection: by Lewis H. Morgan" runs pages 63-93 + 17 single-side colored plates [one folding] of ethnographic artifacts [ Iroquois Indian costume & textiles]. Other articles include: Franklin B. Hough "Notice of Several Ancient Remains of Art in Jefferson & St. Lawrence Counties" [pages 101-105 + 5 single-side engraved plates]. Morgan,the founder of American anthropology, was the first ethnologist to classify kinship systems of relationship, based on his comparative study of Iroquois & Greco-Roman clan organisations.

Keywords: New World Ethnography, Iroquois Indians, Antiquities Indian, Folk Costume, Textiles Textile, Material Culture, United States, Anthropology Social, Native Americans, History Ethnology