Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1911-1912
Government Printing Office, 1919. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Quarto; hardcover; 677 pp. Tight binding; previous owner stamps to top margin of numerous pages throughout, text block not affected; corners bumped and heavily worn; Good. Contains a fold-out illustration of Hopi pottery designs.. Good. Item #166624 The United States Congress established the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879. Directed by surveyor, geologist, and U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell, the Bureau collected European-American knowledge about Indigenous nations, motivated by the false “vanishing race” theory that Indigenous cultures and ways of life were naturally fading out of existence – though in reality they were being displaced by the westward expansion of the United States government and European-American settlers. The Bureau of Ethnology gathered thousands of photographs, illustrations, and other documentation of Indigenous cultures until it merged with other divisions of the Smithsonian Institute in the 1960s.
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