George Gibbs

"Studied as one system, springing from a common experience, and similar wants, and under institutions of the same general character, forms of aboriginal architecture] are seen to indicate a plan of life at once novel, original, and distinctive."-Lewis H. Morgan, Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines (1881)Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines (1881) by Lewis Morgan is the fourth volume in a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). In this book, sourced from North and Central American texts and illustrations, Morgan attempted to explain some of the ways domestic architecture reflects the development of kinship and property relations and helped anthropologists and archaeologists understand indigenous social organization. It can be considered a sequel to Morgan's book Ancient Society (also available from Cosimo Classics). This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists and students of Native American history.

"Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."-Seattle, Chief of Suquamish and Duwamish tribes (19th Century)Tribes of the Extreme Northwest, and, Tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon (1877) by William Dall and George Gibbs, is the first volume of a nine-part series entitled Contributions to North American Ethnology (all available from Cosimo Classics). In this first volume, two prominent nineteenth-century naturalists provide an overview of the Alaskan and Northwestern tribes, detail on tribal vocabularies, and information about relationships and succession within the tribes. This book offers a critical contribution to the history of Native Americans and is a must-read for anthropologists and students of Native American history.