Beschreibung:

Gr.-8°. Mit zahlr. Textabbildungen. 1 Bl., IX, 971 SS.; 1 Bl., IV, 1221 SS. Ldr. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rsch. (stark beschabt und bestoßen, Ecken und Kanten mit Läsuren, Deckel gestempelt).

Bemerkung:

"Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30".- First Edition.- "The (alphabetically arranged) handbook contains a descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north of Mexico (including the Eskimo), accompanied with the various names by which these have been known, together with biographies of Indians of note, sketches of their history, archeology, manners, arts, customs, and institutions, and the aboriginal words incorporated into the English language" (Letter of Transmittal).