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The American Indian, an introduction to the anthropology of the New World, by Clark Wissler ...

Record details

  • Physical Description: xvii, 466 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates, maps (1 folded) diagrams 23 cm
  • Edition: 3d ed.
  • Publisher: New York Oxford University Press, 1938.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
"Linguistic tables and bibliography": pages 389-439.
Formatted Contents Note:
The food areas of the new world -- Domestication of animals and methods of transportation -- The textile arts -- The ceramic arts -- Decorative designs -- Architecture -- Work in stone and metals -- Special inventions -- The fine arts -- Social grouping -- Social regulation -- Ritualistic observances -- Mythology -- The classification of social groups according to their cultures -- Archaeological classification -- Chronology of cultures -- Linguistic classification -- Somatic classification -- New world origins -- Linguistic tables and bibliography.
Subject:
Indians.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lummi Library E 58 .W83 1938 263499 Stacks Available -