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

Title
The American Indian, an introduction to the anthropology of the New World, by Clark Wissler ...
Author
Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947
Publication
New York [etc.] Oxford University Press, 1938.

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copy 2TextRequest in advance N.A.ETH. W 765 a 3 copy 2Off-site

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Description
xvii, 466 p. front., illus., plates, maps (1 fold.) diagrs.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Indians
  • American Indian or Alaska Native
Bibliography (note)
  • "Linguistic tables and bibliography": p. [389]-439.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
LCCN
^^^38002249^
OCLC
  • 751530
  • SCSB-10038640
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library