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Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume IX. Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography
Riggs, Steven Return and Dorsey, James Owen (Ed.) · Washington
- Author
- Riggs, Steven Return and Dorsey, James Owen (Ed.)
- Date
- 1893
- Place
- Washington
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 4to.(9" x 11.5") XXXII, 239 pp. Full dark maroon cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips. Head and foot of spine frayed, head torn about 1" down, boards and edges rubbed. Bookplate to front pastedown of American Lawyer and Attorney General of The United States, George Woodward Wickersham. Front gutter starting towards foot with small closed tear and smal loss at spine, first free endpaper chipped with loss at foot, several splits to text block towards rear of book, mesh seen.
- Category
- History & Americana
- Record
- S.I.8120
4to.(9" x 11.5") 1893. Washington: Government Printing Office. XXXII, 239 pp. Full dark maroon cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips. Head and foot of spine frayed, head torn about 1" down, boards and edges rubbed. Bookplate to front pastedown of American Lawyer and Attorney General of The United States, George Woodward Wickersham. Front gutter starting towards foot with small closed tear and smal loss at spine, first free endpaper chipped with loss at foot, several splits to text block towards rear of book, mesh seen. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume IX: Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography is a foundational work in the study of the Dakota (Sioux) language and culture, compiled by Stephen Return Riggs, a missionary and linguist who spent decades among the Dakota people.
Condition
Good
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