Lewis H. Morgan On Iroquois Material Culture

ELISABETH TOOKER

Publication: The University of Arizona Press, 1994, Tucson and London

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, cream colored front and rear endpapers, xxii, 325 [2] pp., preface, editorial method, illustrated, frontispiece, illustrated, portraits, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Morgan, one of America's first anthropologists, assembled for the New York State Cabinet of Natural History a comprehensive nineteenth century collection of Iroquois-made artifacts. It featured more than 500 objects and at the time it was the largest such collection for a single Indian group. It was destroyed by fire in 1911. Much on the life of Lewis H. Morgan (1818-1881) is provided. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 48833