INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST, 1st edition, Hardback 1913 [SOLD]

INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST by Pliny Earle Goddard

Published by American Museum of Natural History, 1913

Hardback, 191 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs

Condition: very good condition

Contents

The Ancient Peoples

Modern Pueblos

The Nomadic Peoples

From the Introduction to this edition:

“When Pliny Earle Goddard wrote Indians of the Southwest in 1912, he had been at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City for a little more than three years.  The Southwest Indian Hall of that great museum had been placed under his charge, and one of his first major tasks was to direct the reinstallation of its exhibits.  In doing so he added to his firsthand experience among Apache and Navajo Indians by reading virtually every major work about the Indians of the Southwest which had been published up to that time.

“Before Goddard’s work, the only book which purported to survey the cultures of the Indians of the Southwest was one written by George Dorsey (1903) for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System.  Dorsey’s little volume, although containing some useful information, was written for tourists whom Santa Fe hoped to attract to their routes through the Southwest, and the emphasis, naturally enough, is on tribes whom the passengers might expect to visit.  The present handbook is much more inclusive, and of all the tribes today regarded as belonging to the Southwest, only the Yuman-speaking Cocopa of the Lower Colorado River and the Southern Paiute who live immediately north of the Grand Canyon are missing.  The Paiute, moreover, are culturally-speaking a Great Basin group rather than Indians of the Southwest.”