PBA Galleries

Nine volumes, including:

• 3rd Annual Report, 1881-82. 1884.
• 5th Annual Report, 1883-84. 1887.
• 8th Annual Report, 1886-87. 1891.
• 11th Annual Report, 1889-90. 1894.
• 15th Annual Report, 1893-94. 1897.
• 16th Annual Report, 1894-95. 1897.
• 17th Annual Report, 1895-96, Part 2. 1898.
• 19th Annual Report, 1897-98, Part 2. 1900.
• 23rd Annual Report, 1901-02. 1904.

Together 9 quarto volumes, all in the original green cloth but for the 5th Annual Report which is in period half leather.

The Bureau of American Ethnology was established in 1879 for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Interior Department to the Smithsonian Institution. But from the start, the bureau's visionary founding director, John Wesley Powell, promoted a broader mission: "to organize anthropologic research in America." Under Powell, the bureau organized research intensive multi-year projects; sponsored ethnographic, archaeological and linguistic field research; initiated publications series (most notably its Annual Reports and Bulletins); and promoted the fledgling discipline of anthropology. A wealth of information on the Native American nations, the present volumes include reports on the Maya, Navajo, Zuni, Pueblo, Sia, and other nations.