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‎First, Second and Third Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1882. ‎

‎Washington, Government Printing Office, 1881-1884. 3 volumes in-4 (29,5 x 21 cm), xxxv-603pp., xxxvii-477pp., lxxiv-606pp., with numerous plates, maps (many folding and colored), charts and illustrations in the text, publisher’s cloth bindings, spines lettered in gilt, indian portrait gilt on the first board, lightly rubbed, ‎

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‎Complete set of the first three annual reports (1879-80,1880-81, 1881-82) of the Bureau of Ethnology under the direction of John Wesley Powell, explorer of the Colorado River and founder of the systematic study of American anthropology within the Smithsonian Institution. These monumental publications established the foundations of modern ethnography in North America, combining linguistic, archaeological, and anthropological surveys. An attractive, well-preserved set of these foundational Smithsonian volumes, Among the most important papers are H. C. Yarrow, A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians (funerary rites); Garrick Mallery, Sign language among North American Indians (gesture speech); Frank Hamilton Cushing, Zuñi Fetiches (Zuni ethnography); Erminnie A. Smith, Myths of the Iroquois (Iroquois mythology); and J. Owen Dorsey, Omaha Sociology (Omaha social organization) and others, with extensive illustrations of artifacts and ceremonial objects.Together they constitute one of the most important early corpuses on Native American cultures and material history Ensemble des trois premiers Rapports annuels du Bureau of Ethnology dirigé par John Wesley Powell (Washington, GPO, 1881-1884), grands in-4 richement illustrés (planches, cartes dépliantes, figures), pierre angulaire de l’ethnologie nord-américaine (linguistique, mythologie, archéologie, muséographie). Parmi les contributions majeures figurent H. C. Yarrow, A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians (rites funéraires), Garrick Mallery, Sign language among North American Indians (langage gestuel), Frank Hamilton Cushing, Zuñi Fetiches (ethnographie zuñi), Erminnie A. Smith, Myths of the Iroquois (corpus mythologique iroquois), et J. Owen Dorsey, Omaha Sociology (organisation sociale omaha). M9-C ‎