HOUSES AND HOUSE-LIFE OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES [SOLD]


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Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Subject: Native American: General
  • Item # C3602Z
  • Date Published: Hardcover, first edition, 1881
  • Size: 281 numbered pages, 56 illustration, photographs, color plate
  • SOLD

HOUSES AND HOUSE-LIFE OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES

By Lewis H. Morgan

 

Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume IV, Department of the Interior,

U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, 1881

 

Hardcover, first edition, 1881, 281 numbered pages, 56 illustration, photographs, color plate

 

Condition: very good condition with minor tear on cover at top and bottom of spine.

 

From the PREFACE

 

The following work substantially formed the Fifth Part of the original manuscript of “Ancient Society,” under the title “Growth of the Idea of House Architecture.”  As the manuscript exceeded the limits of a single volume, this portion was removed and having then no intention to publish it separately, the greater part of it found its way into print in detached articles.

 

At the request of the executive committee of the “Archaeological Institute of America,” at Cambridge, this study, with a scheme for the exploration of the ruins in New Mexico, Arizona, the San Juan region, Yucatan, and Central America, was prepared for publication in 1881.

 

CONTENTS

 

Chapter I. Social and Governmental Organizations

Chapter II. The Law of Hospitality and its General Practice

Chapter III. Communism in Living

Chapter IV. Usages and Customs with Respect to Land and Food

Chapter V. Houses of Indian Tribes North of New Mexico

Chapter VI. Houses of the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico

Chapter VII. Houses in Ruins of the Sedentary Indians of the San Juan River and Tributaries

Chapter. VIII. Houses in Ruins of the Sedentary Indians of the San Juan River (continued)

Chapter IX. Houses of the Mound-Builders

Chapter X. Houses of the Aztecs or Ancient Mexicans

Chapter XI. Ruins of Houses of the Sedentary Indians of Yucatan and Central America

 

Selected from the Illustrations:

 

Figure 22. Pueblo of Santo Domingo

Figure 23. Pueblo of Zuni

Figure 24. Room in Zuni House

Figure 25. Pueblo of Wolpi

Figure 26. Room in Moki House

Figure 27. North Pueblo of Taos

 

Figure 28. Room in Pueblo of Taos

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Lewis Henry Morgan
  • Subject: Native American: General
  • Item # C3602Z
  • Date Published: Hardcover, first edition, 1881
  • Size: 281 numbered pages, 56 illustration, photographs, color plate
  • SOLD

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