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Title: Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-'88 Author: ** Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1892 Description: xlvi, 617 pp. Illus. with 2 maps; 5 (of 6) color lithographed plates; numerous engravings & text figures. 11½x7½, original green cloth with gilt cover vignette, spine lettered in gilt. The color lithographed plates depict various accoutrements of The Medicine-Men of the Apache by John G. Bourke; the article comprises pp. 443-603. The remainder of the work is taken up by the Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch with much on the material culture of the Eskimo. Lot Amendments Condition: Mild soiling to cloth, light wear to extremities; lacking plate at page 590; else very good. Item number: 180068