Report U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian Vol. VII 1879 Frederick Putnam ~Archeology California, AZ & NM Indians

Title: Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian - Vol. VII - Archaeology [Reports upon Archaeological and Ethnological Collections from Vicinity of Santa Barbara, California, and from Ruined Pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico, and Certain Interior Tribes, with Appendix of Indian Vocabularies]

Author: [Frederick W. Putnam; Albert S. Gatschet, et al.] First Lieut. Geo M. [George Montague] Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, under the direction of Brig. Gen. A. A. Humphries, Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army

Description: Original brown cloth. Worn at spine ends and spine edges. Inner hinges good. Interior is clean and unmarked. Foxing along top edge of tissue guards, else contents fine. Color frontispiece, 20 plates featuring reproductions of photographed artifacts, map of locations of mounds and burial places along the south California coast, and 135 in-text illustrations. xxi + 497 pages. 12 x 9.5 inches.

The volume is divided into two parts, the first being the reports on the archaeological collections made from the ancient burial places in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, California in 1875. The second part consists of the archaeological and ethnological information collected by several field-parties in New Mexico and Arizona.

The 86-page appendix presents classifications of Indian dialects in forty vocabularies, by the ethnologist-linguist Albert Samuel Gatschet, based on the word-collections made by the Expedition between 1871 and 1876.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place: Washington
Year: 1879

Keywords: Native American, Indians, California, southern California Arizona, New Mexico, anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, Paiute, Shoshone,