Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1892-1893, Part II (N. Scott Momaday's copy, with his father's ownership signature)
D.C. Government Printing Office, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Part II only. An association copy: From the library of N. Scott Momaday, a book he inherited from his father, the painter Al Momaday. With Al Momaday's signature ("Property of Al Momaday") on the front pastedown. Under the direction of John Wesley Powell (at the time and until his death the director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution), this volume presents the "The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890" by James Mooney, including more than 150 pages featuring descriptions of many songs. With black and white photos and illustrations scattered throughout. N. Scott Momaday, was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for House of the Rising Dawn in 1969 and a key figure of the literary Native American Renaissance. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2007. His father, Al Momaday, was an artist and illustrator, and they collaborated on books. A large heavy quarto in green cloth, about 500 pages. A good only copy with apparent water damage to boards and pastedowns, with attendant discoloring, but the pages largely unaffected except for a very light waviness to the lower portion of the textblock through the first 100 pages or so, after which any sign of impact drops away. Also rubbing to cloth at board edges, worn through at the lower corners. Nonetheless a nice association between father and son and an important work of indigenous ethnography. Good. Item #2076
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