NATIVE AMERICANS - Hardcover

WILLIAM S. STURTEVANT

 
9780861015238: NATIVE AMERICANS
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0861015231 ISBN 13: 9780861015238
Verlag: Salamander Books, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

The Native American looks back at the way of life of the first Americans. Divided into nine cultural areas, it draw particular attention - through the medium of 38 superb artifact spreads - to the ways in which some of the early inhabitants adapted to living in widely varying environments, from the Arctic to the Southwest. Over 1000 tribal artifacts have been selected and described by William C. Sturtevant of the Smithsonian Institution. Drawn from the superb collections of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Smithsonian itself, many of them have not been seen since they were collected by anthropologists and ethnologists near the turn of the last century; none of them has been presented before in color tableaux that give such a rich insight into the material wealth and culture of so many different tribes and groups. With the aid of over 250 archive photographs, maps, color plates and artworks, The Native Americans looks at various cultural aspects, beliefs, key individuals and historical events in the lives of many tribes and groups of Indians,

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Verlag
Salamander Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0861015231
ISBN 13 
9780861015238
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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