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Contributions to North American Ethnology

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Title: Contributions to North American Ethnology. Volume III: Tribes of California by Stephen Powers [and] Vol. V: Observations on Cup-Shaped and Other Lapidarian Sculptures in the Old World and in America by Charles Rau
Author: Powell, J[ohn] W[esley]; Stephen Powers; Charles Rau; et al
Description: 2 volumes. Numerous wood engraved illustrations, Vol. III with 4 chromolithograph plates; Vol. V with large folding map printed in colors laid in. (4to) period half red morocco and boards, spine lettered in gilt, (series title on spine reads "U. S. Explorations West of the Mississippi. Powell's Ethnology"), marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. First Edition.Ex libris Northern Pacific Railway Co. Library with their small ink stamp to verso of front free endpaper and title page, bound for company president Henry Villard (1835-1900) with his name in gilt at spine foot. Villard was a major figure in the transportation industry in the West. He was president of Northern Pacific from 1880-1884 and served on the Board of Directors 1887-93. Vol. V also contains reports by Robert Fletcher: "On Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets" and Cyrus Thomas: "A Study of the Manuscript Troano."
Heading: Place Published: Washington
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Date Published: 1877 & 1882