1916 antique TEWA INDIANS w MAP history ethnobotany medicine remedy food culture
Nice early book with good tight binding. Hardcover, cloth over board, olive green cloth with golding on spine. 118 pages. Measures approx 9.25"x6".
Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians (new Mexico) by Wilfred William robbins, John Peabody Harrington amd Barbara freire-marreco. Washington, government printing office. 1916.
Hardbound in oriolive green cloth with golding on spine. 118 pages. Wonderful large fold out map. Index of Botanical Names; b/w plates and large fold-out map (Archaeological Map-Jemez Plateau-New Mexico). Chapters cover trees, shrubs, herbs, cacti, vines, gourds, grasses, fungi, ferns, mosses and lichens, rushes, wild plants, and indigenous plants; Tewa concepts of plant life; plant names of the Tewa; etc.