Item #23120 The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northeast; Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer; and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong. Emma Helen Blair, and.
The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northeast; Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer; and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong
The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northeast; Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer; and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong
The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northeast; Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer; and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong

The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northeast; Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer; and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong

Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1911-1912.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes bound in red cloth, pp. 372, 412, with portraits, facsimiles, double-page map in Volume I, bibliography, index. Prospectus (4 pp) and "The Late Emma Helen Blair" (2 pp) laid in. (Blair died while the work was in publication). Both volumes very good or better, with light bumping to corners, a few scuff marks, light staining visible on rear board of Volume II. Internals fine. According to the prospectus, the newly translated works contained here provide "much new and first-hand material upon primitive beliefs, superstitions, legends, and ceremonies; feasts, songs, dances, games, and amusements; customs regarding courtship and marriage, naming of children, seclusion of women and childbirth, funerals, and mourning; clan organizations and secret societies; mode of waging warfare, etc." Clark & Brunet 22; Howes B-498.

Item #23120

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