Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology - to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891

If any of these characters do not display properlyin particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letteror if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure that your browsers character set or file encoding is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. Note that the stress marks, as in Midwiwin, are not meant to go on top of the adjoining letter. The first part consists of an explanation of the plan and operations of the Bureau; the second part consists of a series of papers on anthropologic subjects, prepared to illustrate the methods and results of the work of the Bureau. General lines of investigation were indicated by the Director, and the details intrusted to selected persons trained in their several pursuits, the results of whose labors are published from time to time in the manner provided for by law. Abrief statement of the work upon which each of these special students was engaged during the year, with its condensed result, is presented below. This, however, does not specify in detail all of the studies undertaken or services rendered by them, as particular lines of research have been temporarily suspended in order to accomplish immediately objects regarded as of superior importance. From this cause the publication of several treatises and monographs has been delayed, although in some instances they have been heretofore reported as substantially completed, and, indeed, as partly in type. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 26568
Author: Powell, John Wesley
Release Date: Sep 10, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902