[Rarebooks] FS: Archaeology of Aboriginal Peoples of the American Southwest

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Offered today:

MORRIS, Earl Halstead (1889-1956). 

Archaeological Studies in the La Plata District, Southwestern Colorado and Northwestern New Mexico.  With Appendix, Technology of La Plata Pottery by Anna O. Shepard. 

Washington, DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1939. 

4to.  11 1/2 x 9 inches.  xxiv, 298 pp.  Seal of the Carnegie Institution of Washington on the title page, 1 color plate, 77 figures, 321 plates at the rear of the volume with explanatory text opposite; some light toning and foxing, text clean, unmarked.  Originally issued in printed wrappers, this copy does not have the wrappers but is bound in half blue cloth, patterned paper over boards, spine titled in gilt with a binder’s rubber stamp from Guatemala, C. A, on the front paste-down; light soiling to covers and edges.  Very Good. 

$ 100

FIRST EDITION.  In this study, Morris and Shepard established further examples of the breadth of cultural exchange between La Plata peoples and those of the Chuska Mountains, through a careful study of temper particles incorporated in the pottery clay of the La Plata peoples.  Extensively illustrated presentation of their studies.  Earl Halstead Morris was one of the leading New World archeologists, having pursued his career from 1912 to 1956.  Reference: Lister and Lister, Earl Morris & Southwestern Archaeology, p. 196. 

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