INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS - a Color-Illustrated Record [SOLD]

INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS - a Color-Illustrated Record

By Matthew W. Sterling

Director, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution 1928-57

Published by The National Geographic Society, 1955

Hardback, slip cover, 431 pages

Illustrated with full-color reproductions of 149 paintings by W. Langdon Kihn and H. M. Herget, and eight other contemporary Indian painters. 113 photographs in natural color and 130 black and white photographs, maps, drawings, and diagrams.

Chapter Contents

Part I. Indians of North America, a Historical Panorama

  1. America’s First Settlers, the Indians

  2. Southeastern Indians

  3. Indians of Our Western Plains

  4.  Indian Tribes of Pueblo Land

  5. Indians of the Far West

  6.  Indians of the North Pacific Coast

  7. Nomads of the Far North

  8. Painting the North American Indian

Part II. Ancient Life in the New World

  9. The Maya of Yucatan

  10. La Venta Man

  11. The Aztecs of Mexico

  12. Hunting Prehistory in Panama Jungles

  13. The Incas, Empire Builders of the Andes

14. Discovering Machu Picchu

15. America’s First Farmers, Food Givers to the World

16. Solving Secrets of the Southwest

Part III. Indians Today, From Amazon to Arctic

  17. Indians of South and Central America

  18. Mexico’s Timeless Indians

  19. Northland Life

  20. The American Indian Citizen and Neighbor