Otis Tufton Mason — Aboriginal American Basketry Studies in a Textile Art without Machinery Report of the U S National Museum for June 30 1902.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1904. Leather. A publication of this 1902 report of the U.S National Museum. Illustrated throughout, with numerous vignettes and 248 plates to the rear. This work explores different techniques and styles of textiles by the different tribes of indigenous American people. Written by the American ethnologist and Smithsonian Institution curator, Otis Tufton Mason. In full crushed morocco binding with gilt stamping to spine. Rebound in a modern binding. Internally, firmly bound. Tightly bound in places, particularly at the plates. Pages are generally bright with some small ink drawings by a prior owner to the bottom margin of several pages. The odd spot. Near Fine . Ill.: Unamed. Near Fine .