Abstract
THIS volume is Bulletin 30 of the Bureau of American Ethnology in connection with the Smithsonian Institution. The handbook contains a descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north of Mexico, accompanied with the various names by which these have been knowrn, together with brief biographies of Indians of note, sketches of their history, archæology, manners, arts, customs, and institutions, and the aboriginal words incorporated into the English language. All the tribes north of Mexico are dealt with, including the Eskimo and those tribes south of the boundary more or less affiliated with those in the United States. Under the tribal descriptions a short account of the ethnic relations of the tribe, its location at various periods, and statistics of population are included. There are many illustrations. Though confessedly incomplete, the handbook represents a vast amount of research by an army of observers, and students of ethnography will look forward to the publication of the second part with keen anticipation.
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico.
Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Pp. ix + 972. In two parts. Part i. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico . Nature 76, 149 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076149b0
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