Encounter with an Angry God, Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington
Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, 1975.
Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. xxii, 190 pp. Fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to edges. "John Peabody Huntington was a man driven by genius and totally obsessed with the idea that time was running out for the American Indian - so much so that he eventually gave up all social life, believing that time thus wasted was at the cost of his work as field ethnologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology. During his lifetime, he collected literally tons of data on almost ever Indian tribe on the North American continent, filling whole warehouses with materials that today are being explored by more than a score of scholars. {This book offers] a sensitive and unsparing account of that strange and legendary figure" (dust jacket).
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Price: $50.00