Indians of Western North America (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Ariss, Robert

Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum

Pub Date: 1955

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name, acquisition date, and private library information on ffep/title page.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes:  Pamphlet.  Science Series, No. 19.  Anthropology, No. 1.  Not an exhibit catalog per se, but an “exhibit supplement” for the Los Angeles County Museum’s Native American culture collection, “represented in the Indian Hall.” (Introduction).  From the Plains Indians westward, north into Canada and Alaska, California and the Great Basin, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest, including portions of northern Mexico.   Environment, material and non-material culture, social organization, contacts with other tribes.  Illustrated with black-and-white photos.  Lots of thought was put into this.