GREENER FIELDS : Experiences Among the American Indians
by Alice Marriott
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- Hardcover
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New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/NEW & Bright. 1953 Vintage Edition. Gilt embossed red linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; Price clipped w/nips to upper front edge & light surface wear; under mylar. Anthropologist, historian, author Alice Lee Marriott (1910 - 1992) was a Specialist in Indian Arts & Crafts with the Dept of the Interior. 274 pgs in 19 lively chapters. Volume recounts her life's work among American Indian tribes, of which chapter 8, 10, & 11 were first published in the New Yorker. 274 pgs in 19 chapters. Included is an essay on Adoption practices and also is a charming, hilarious visit to a San Francisco department store w/two Indian craftswomen from the World's Fair.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020605
- Title
- GREENER FIELDS : Experiences Among the American Indians
- Author
- Alice Marriott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1953
- Pages
- 274
- Keywords
- Memoir, Anthropology, Arts & Crafts, Native American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Sciences; Autobiography; Memoir;
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