Publication: The Pioneer Co, 1911, St Paul
First Edition. Rebound, in facsimile of original, in Three-Quarter Leather with Gilt-stamping on spine. Original cloth on front and rear boards has been retained. xiv, [1]-761pp. Illustrated by Thirty-Six Halftone Page Plates, Twenty-Six Folded Inserts and Six Hundred and Forty-Two Figures Inserted In The Text. Highly respected and definitive work on the Ojibwa and other aborigines of the Dakota stock in Minnesota, including their prehistoric ancestors, customs, costume, treaties, missions, war and weapons, etc. An outstanding and major historical and ethnological work. Thoroughly-researched and scholarly. Pages 1-559 focus on the Dakota, and pages 580-731 on the Ojibwa. An attractive, near fine copy.
Inventory Number: 48295