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view Chapters on the ethnology of the Powhatan tribes of Virginia, by Frank G. Speck digital asset number 1

Chapters on the ethnology of the Powhatan tribes of Virginia, by Frank G. Speck

Author:
Speck, Frank Gouldsmith 1881-1950  Search this
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this
Physical description:
2 p. l., p. 255-455 incl. illus., plates, ports. II fold. pl. (map) 17 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Virginia
Date:
1928
Call number:
E51 .I392 vol. 1 no. 5
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_777044
view Die Masken und Geheimbünde Afrikas digital asset number 1

Die Masken und Geheimbünde Afrikas

Author:
Frobenius, Leo 1873-1938  Search this
Physical description:
278 p. illus. ; 33 cm
Type:
Electronic resources
Place:
Africa
Date:
1898
Topic:
Secret societies  Search this
Masks, African  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
GN419.5 .F92 1898
GN419.5.F92 1898
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_369251
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Ethnology : a science on display

Author:
Grognet, Fabrice  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Musée de l'homme (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle)  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
France
Paris
Date:
2001
Topic:
Ethnological museums and collections  Search this
Museum exhibits  Search this
Call number:
AM1 .M68
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_667105
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An ethnologic dictionary of the Navaho language

Title:
Ethnologic dictionary of the Navajo language
Author:
Franciscan Fathers (St. Michaels, Ariz.)  Search this
Physical description:
[5], 8-536 p. illus. 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1910
[c1910]
Topic:
Navajo language  Search this
Call number:
E99.N3 F819 1910
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_682520
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A naturalist in north Celebes : a narrative of travels in Minahassa, the Sangir and Talaut Islands, with notices of the fauna, flora and ethnology of the districts visited / by Sydney J. Hickson ; with maps and illustrations

Title:
North Celebes
Author:
Hickson, Sydney John 1859-1940  Search this
Former owner:
Bayer, Frederick M. DSI  Search this
Subject:
Hickson, Sydney John 1859-1940 Travel  Search this
Physical description:
xv, [1], 392 p., [9] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Malay Archipelago
Celebes (Indonesia)
Date:
1889
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DS601 .H63X 1889
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_781488
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Papers from the fourth annual congress, 1977 / Canadian Ethnology Society ; editor, Richard J. Preston

Author:
Canadian Ethnology Society Congress (4th : 1977 : Halifax, Nova Scotia)  Search this
Preston, Richard J. 1931-  Search this
National Museums of Canada  Search this
Physical description:
vii, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Canada
Date:
1978
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Call number:
E78.C2 C36 1977
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_567311
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Essays on the ethnology of Nepal and South Asia, I / by Alexander W. Macdonald

Author:
Macdonald, Alexander W  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 317 p. : music ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Nepal
Asia
Date:
1984
1984, 1983
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
DS493.8 .M13 1984
DS493.8.M13 1984
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_273219
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George Grenfell and the Congo : a history and description of the Congo Independent State and adjoining districts of Congoland, together with some account of the native peoples and their languages, the fauna and flora; and similar notes on the Cameroons and the island of Fernando Pô, the whole founded on the diaries and researches of the late Rev. George Grenfell, B.M.S., F.R.G.S.; and on the records of the British Baptist Missionary Society; and on additional information contributed by the author, by the Rev. Lawson Forfeitt, Mr. Emil Torday, and others / by Harry Johnston ... With 496 illustrations from photographs by the Revs. George Grenfell and William Forfeitt ... and others and from drawings by the author, and 14 maps by the late Rev. George Grenfell, and also by J.W. Addison ... the last-named being based mainly on Grenfell's surveys and on additional material contributed by Mr. E. Torday, the author, Mons. A.J. Wauters, the publications of the Congo state, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Baptist Missionary Society

Author:
Johnston, Harry 1858-1927  Search this
Forfeitt, Lawson  Search this
Torday, Emil 1875-1931  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Subject:
Grenfell, George 1849-1906  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., [43] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., ports., maps, facsims. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Brazzaville)
Date:
1908
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_780793
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Teton Dakota : ethnology and history / by John C. Ewers

Author:
Ewers, John Canfield  Search this
United States Work Projects Administration (Calif.)  Search this
United States National Park Service  Search this
Physical description:
90, 12 p. : plates (part col.), maps (part col.) ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1937
Topic:
History  Search this
Call number:
E99.T34 E94 1937
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_687564
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My African neighbors : man, bird, and beast in Nyasaland / by Hans Coudenhove

Author:
Coudenhove, Hans  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Burt, Allen DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 245 p., [6] leaves of plates : front. (port.) ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Malawi
Date:
1925
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Zoology  Search this
Call number:
DT3189 .C69 1925
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_777533
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The development of American anthropology 1879-1920 : from the Bureau of American Ethnology to Franz Boas / by Regna Diebold Darnell

Author:
Darnell, Regna  Search this
Physical description:
xxxxiii, 483 leaves
Type:
Manuscripts
Place:
United States
America
Date:
1970
Topic:
Anthropology--History  Search this
Ethnology--History  Search this
Call number:
GN17 .D22 1977a
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_794135
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The Missionary-Ethnologic Museum in the Vatican

Author:
Zagnoli, Roberto  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Museo missionario etnologico  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Vatican City
Date:
1999
Topic:
Ethnological museums and collections  Search this
Call number:
GN301 .A673
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_799420
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Two trips to gorilla land and the cataracts of the Congo / by Richard F. Burton

Title:
Gorilla land and the cataracts of the Congo
Author:
Burton, Richard Francis 1821-1890  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Leaf, William B. DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., [2] leaves of plates : ill., 2 fold. col. maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Africa, West
Congo River
Date:
1876
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_779579
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Report on the mound explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology / by Cyrus Thomas

Author:
Thomas, Cyrus 1825-1910  Search this
Physical description:
p. 3-742 : ill. ; 30 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1894
Topic:
Mounds  Search this
Mound-builders  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Call number:
E73 .T45 1894
E73.T45 1894
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_368391
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Indian recreations : consisting chiefly of strictures of the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans & Hindoos / by the Rev. William Tennant

Author:
Tennant, William 1758-1813  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., [5] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
India
Date:
1803
Topic:
Ethnology  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
GN635.I4 T35 1803
GN635.I4T35 1803
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_342218
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La policia y sus misterios en Cuba; y adicionada con "La policia judicial", procedimientos, formularios, leyes, reglamentos, ordenanzas y disposiciones que conciernen a los cuerpos de seguridad publica. [por] Rafael Roche

Author:
Roche y Monteagudo, Rafael b. 1871  Search this
Physical description:
518, [1] p. illus., ports. 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Cuba
Date:
1914
Topic:
Police  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Blacks  Search this
Criminal anthropology  Search this
Santeria  Search this
Call number:
HV8171.A2 R6 1914
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_687531
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From my grandmother's hands : moccasins of the Plains Indians / [prepared by the Ethnology Department, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta]

Title:
Moccasins of the Plains Indians
Author:
Glenbow Museum Ethnology Department  Search this
Physical description:
[4] p. : ill., map ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Great Plains
Northwest, Canadian
West (U.S.)
Date:
1979
C1979
Topic:
Moccasins  Search this
Indian craft  Search this
Call number:
E98.F73 G54 1979
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_596205
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A journey to Ashango-Land : and further penetration into equatorial Africa / by Paul B. Du Chaillu ; with map and illustrations

Author:
Du Chaillu, Paul B (Paul Belloni) 1835-1903  Search this
Owen, Richard 1804-1892  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Butt, John Eede DSI  Search this
Cole Mrs. DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xxiv, 501 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill., front., map (folded) ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Africa, West
Date:
1867
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT356 .D83 1867
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_779112
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Explorations & adventures in equatorial Africa : with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chace [sic] of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals / by Paul B. Du Challiu

Title:
Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa
Adventures in equatorial Africa
Author:
Du Chaillu, Paul B (Paul Belloni) 1835-1903  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Madden, John DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 479 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill., front. (folded), map (folded) ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Africa, West
Gabon
Date:
1861
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_779236
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A history of the island of Madagascar : comprising a political account of the island, the religion, manners, and customs of its inhabitants, and its natural productions : with an appendix, containing a history of the several attempts to introduce Christianity into the island / by Samuel Copland

Title:
Copland's Madagascar DSI
Author:
Copland, Samuel  Search this
Lymington Lady  Search this
Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Portsmouth, Isaac Newton Wallop Earl of 1825-1891 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 369, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Madagascar
Date:
1822
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
Call number:
DT469.M31 C7X 1822
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_786234

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