TitlePutnam anniversary volume; anthropological essays presented to Frederic Ward Putnam in honor of his seventieth birthday, April 16, 1909, by his friends and associates.
PublishedNew York, G.E. Stechert & Co., 1909.
Description4 p. ℓ., 627 p. front. (port.) illus., plates (partly col.) map. 30 cm.
General NoteContains mounted sample of cloth dyed with purpura.
Franz Boas, chairman editorial committee.
--Barrett, S.A. The Cayapa numeral system.--Hrdlička, A. Stature of Indians of the Southwest and of northern Mexico.--Boas, F. Notes on the Iroquois language.--Dixon, R.B. Outlines of Wintun grammar.--Swanton, J.R. A new Siouan dialect.--Smith, H.I. Primitive industries as a normal college course.--Dorsey, G.A. A visit to the German Solomon Islands.--Kittredge, G.L. The Pillars of Hercules and Chaucer's "Trophee."--Robinson, F.N. Notes on the Irish practice of fasting as a means of distraint.--Toy, C.H. Dusares.--Mead, F.H. Bibliography of Frederick Ward Putman (p. [601]-627)
Formatted NoteContents: Kroeber, A.L. The archaeology of California.--Fewkes, J.W. Ancient Zuni pottery.--Willoughby, C.C. Pottery of the New England Indians.--Mills, W.C. The Seip mound.--Mead, C.W. The fish in ancient Peruvian art.--Moorehead, W.K. A study of primitive culture in Ohio.--Saville, M.H. Cruciform structures of Mitla and vicinity.--Gordon, G.B. Conventionalism and realism in Maya art at Copan, with special reference to the treatment of the macaw.--Pepper, G.H. The exploration of a burial room in Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico.--Fletcher, A.C. Tribal structure: a study of the Omaha and cognate tribes.--Bowditch, C.P. The dates and numbers of pages 24 and 46 to 50 of the Dresden codex.--Tozzer, A.M. Notes on religious ceremonials of the Navaho.--Peabody, C. Certain quests and doles.--Nuttall, Z. A curious survival in Mexico of the use of the purpura shell-fish for dyeing.--Goddard, P.E. Gotal--a Mescalero Apache ceremony.
SubjectsAnthropology.
Ethnology.
Putnam, Frederick Ward, 1839-1915.
Putnam, Frederick Ward, 1839-1915. -- Bibliography.
Other AuthorsBoas, Franz, 1858-1942.
LC Card Number10-11191
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