The Book of the Indians of North America: Comprising Details in the Lives of About Five Hundred Chiefs and Others, the Most Distinguished Among Them
Boston: Published by Josiah Drake, 1833. 22+110+124+47+135pp. Octavo [23 cm] Full brown sheep with the title and devices gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good. Item #8084
Early anthropological work on the pre-colonial Native Americans of New England by the noted historian and antiquarian. Descriptions of the customs, cultural practices, religious ceremonies, etc. of the Patuxet, Wanape, Menatonon, Powhatan, Cherokee, Iroquois Five Nations, Sioux, and Choctaw. Illustrated with five tipped-in plates and numerous in-text illustrations. This work served as source-book for authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Bancroft, Jared Sparks and others.
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