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1962 · réf. 87693 — Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press 1962. First American Edition. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's terracotta cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxii; 170pp. Light bumping and scuffing to corners strong and tight bumped to spine ends; internally clean and fresh bookplate to front pastedown illustrated throughout; in priceclipped pictorial dustjacket with some scuffing and fraying to corners and spine ends some minor soiling and scuffing of the black portions of the jacket. A very good copy with some shelfwear. In the 1930's an ethnological researcher named Dr. Elsie Clews Parsons received a letter from an anonymous Native American offering under rather mysterious circumstances to offer her a series of paintings and sketches of the lives customs costumes and rituals of the Pueblo peoples in an effort to assist with the factual accuracy of her researches and subsequent publications. Dr. Parsons accepted and began a back and forth correspondence with the individual whom she named "Felipe" for a number of years. This volume gathers together the Isleta paintings together in context for the first time providing a valuable eyewitness insight into the daily lives and special occasions of the Pueblo peoples. Smithsonian Institution Press unknown books