Item #14113 Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines (Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume IV). Lewis H. Morgan.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines (Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume IV)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to, original brown cloth. xiii, 281 pp, with chromolithograph frontis of a Zuni water carrier, 30 additional plates (some from photographs, showing Taos, Zuni and Hopi pueblos) and many illustrations in the text. Bookplate and previous owner's signature on front pastedown, some tissue guards missing, boards scuffed, frayed at spine ends. Internally clean and tight. Morgan (1818-1881) was a pioneering American anthropologist best known for his work on kinship and social structure. Here he writes in the Introduction: "If we enter upon the great problem of Indian life with a determination to make it intelligible, their house life and domestic institutions must furnish the key of its explanation. These pages are designed as a commencement of that work." Primarily devoted to the Indians of New Mexico and the San Juan River Basin.

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