THE LAST OF THE SERIS - The Aboriginal Indians of Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico [SOLD]

THE LAST OF THE SERIS The Aboriginal Indians of Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico

By Dane and Mary R. Coolidge

First Edition published by E. P. Dutton, New York, 1939

This Rio Grande Press First Edition published in 1971

Hardback, 308 pages, illustrated in color and black and white photos, new condition

Introduction to the First Edition

“There is an island off the coast of Sonora which rises like the tip of a lost continent, saving from extinction a people from an earlier world, the Seri Indians.  They are savages now but in the old days they had poets who sang songs to every fish in the sea, and to every bird and animal.  Strange white men, with blue eyes and yellow hair, they say, landed on their shores and taught them how to live.  Priests came, bringing a religion not unlike that of the ancient Greeks.  But that was long ago and now they have relapsed into barbarism.”

From a Letter by Frederick J. Dockstader, Director, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, 1971

“This is a book which can be recommended to any reader, for the non-anthropologist will learn a great deal from it; and the professional scholar, unless he has lived with the Seri, will likewise profit greatly.  The most remarkable quality included in the book are the drawings which are reproduced in half-tone.  This is an area rarely encountered in books about Indians, and one might wish there were even more of these intriguing sketches.”