Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1885-'86 - Washington, Government Printing Office, 1891 - xli, 409 pp. + 27 plates, 39 text illustrations including foldable map Ojibwa + 1 coloured foldable map of linguistic families 48 x 55 cm. Eerste integrale uitgave over de oorspronkelijke bewoners van de Verenigde Staten en hun talen. De uitvouwbare kaart is aanwezig en in uitstekende staat. Tevens in deze uitgave: Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibwa and the Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. De illustraties bestaan uit 27 ingevoegde platen en 39 tekstfiguren (inclusief uitvouwbare kaart (Ojibwa reservations) en de in kleuren uitgevoerde uitvouwbare kaart met de taalfamilies. Conditie: de band vertoont kleine schaafplekjes. De scharnieren zijn goed. Bindwerk stevig, papier schoon en geurloos. Een goed exemplaar. Verzending geregistreerd en verzekerd. 'The Bureau of American Ethnology (or BAE, originally, Bureau of Ethnology) was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Department of the Interior to the Smithsonian Institution. But from the start, the bureau's visionary founding director, John Wesley Powell, promoted a broader mission: "to organize anthropologic research in America." Under Powell, the bureau organized research-intensive multi-year projects; sponsored ethnographic, archaeological and linguistic field research; initiated publications series (most notably its Annual Reports and Bulletins); and promoted the fledgling discipline of anthropology. It prepared exhibits for expositions and collected anthropological artifacts for the Smithsonian United States National Museum. In addition, the BAE was the official repository of documents concerning American Indians collected by the various US geological surveys, especially the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region and the Geological Survey of the Territories. It developed a manuscript repository, library and illustrations section that included photographic work and the collection of photographs. The BAE's staff included some of America's earliest field anthropologists, including Frank Hamilton Cushing, James Owen Dorsey, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Alice Cunningham Fletcher, John N.B. Hewitt, Francis La Flesche, Cosmos and Victor Mindeleff, James Mooney, William Henry Holmes, Edward Palmer, James Stevenson, and Matilda Coxe Stevenson. In the 20th century, the BAE's staff included such anthropologists as John Peabody Harrington (a linguist who spent more than 40 years documenting endangered languages), Matthew Stirling, and William C. Sturtevant. The BAE supported the work of many non-Smithsonian researchers (known as collaborators), most notably Franz Boas, Frances Densmore, Garrick Mallery, Washington Matthews, Paul Radin, Cyrus Thomas and T.T. Waterman.'