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First edition first printing of this collection of 11 short stories. Collected here are the following: The Orange Murders by Jack Ritchie, A Deal in Rubies by James Holding, Miss Unwin Goes A-Hunting by H.R.F. Keating, The Landscape of Dreams by John Lutz, Dover Weighs the Evidence by Joyce Porter, Period Piece by Clements Jordan, Pocketful of Noses by James Powell, A Whispering in the Reeds by Patricia Moyes, How I Became a Jeweler by Louis Weinstein, The Contessa Collection by Henry Slesar, A Friend in Need by W. Somerset Maugham, Murder At Tomorrow City by Edward D. Hoch. In fine condition.
The Dakota Bark House (Indian Leaflets 1-4 of The Science Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota) by Louis H. Powell - 1951
by Louis H. Powell
The Dakota Bark House (Indian Leaflets 1-4 of The Science Museum, Saint Paul, Minnesota)
by Louis H. Powell
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Scarce copy in Very Good condition. Small folio with four loose "Indian Leaflets" regarding the Dakota (Sioux) bark house, with an introduction on the Dakota peoples and the bark house or lodge as originally illustrated by frontier artists Hennepin, Eastman, Dallas, and Sweeny, and reproduced here from Minnesota Historical Society archives. Includes a short bibliography. The author states, "It seems high time that a group of contemporary sketches of the distinctive Dakota bark house so familiar to visitors to Fort Snelling and St. Paul should be readily available for schools and students of Indian life of this region." Stiff yellow wraps with French flap, unpaginated, illus. [x7]
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- Publisher The Science Museum
- Place of Publication Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Date Published 1951
- Keywords anthropology, history
- Size 8vo
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by Sullivan, Eleanor (ed), Jack Ritchie, James Holding, H.R.F. Keating, John Lutz, Joyce Porter, Clements Jordan, James Powell, Patricia Moyes, Louis Weinstein, Henry Slesar, W. Somerset Maugham, Edward D. Hoch
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A Study of Indian Beadwork of the North Central Plains; Indian Leaflets No. 5-6-7 of the Science Museum St. Paul, Minnesota / Sponsored by the Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation, 1953
by Powell, Louis H.; the Science Museum (editor)
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St. Paul, Minnesota: The Science Museum NONE [NONE] 1953. (Mass market paperback) Various. Very good. 8vo. Scarce. Illustrated yellow card folded holder, with 6 pages of basic decorative and technical elements of late Indigenous beadwork of the North Central Plains. There is a crease down the front panel of the holder, else is clean and bright. Crow / Assiniboin / Dakota-E / Dakota-W / Cheyenne / Arapaho / Blackfoot / Gros Ventre / Plains Cree / Ojibwa..
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