THE SNAKE-DANCE OF THE MOQUIS OF ARIZONA. BEING A NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY FROM SANTA FÉ, NEW MEXICO, TO THE VILLAGES OF THE MOQUI INDIANS OF ARIZONA....
Bourke, John G.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. [4],vii-xvi,[2],371pp. plus thirty-three plates (one folding, sixteen of them in color), including frontispiece. Original green gilt pictorial cloth, gilt-stamped pictorial spine. Covers rubbed and worn, especially at spine ends and corners. Hinges partially cracked. Frontispiece loosely laid in. Internally quite clean. Good. Bearing the somewhat scarcer New York imprint, most copies being printed in Edinburgh. The illustrations of the snake-dance are fantastic, as are Bourke's comments and insight. His position as one of America's greatest anthropologists is due to the extraordinary commitment to detail exhibited in the present volume, and in his earlier works. A wonderful book, and the first of the author's enthnological writings. HOWES B655.
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