The Native Americans: The indigenous people of North America

William Sturtevant

ISBN 10: 0861015231 / ISBN 13: 9780861015238

Verlag: Salamander, 1991

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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,

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Native Americans: The indigenous people ...
Verlag: Salamander
Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: New