Pre-Columbian inhabitants of North America

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Wonderful adventures : a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America.

Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.

Illustrations of the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians; in a series of letters and notes. Written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing / With three hundred and sixty engravings, from the author's original paintings. By Geo. Catlin.

North American Indians : being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839 / by George Catlin ; with three hundred and twenty illustrations, carefully engraved from the author's original paintings.

Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians / by Geo. Catlin ; written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. In 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39.

Paper medicine man : John Gregory Bourke and his American West / Joseph C. Porter.

Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors / by Bobette Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, Victoria Krueger.

René Goupil, surgeon : the first of the Jesuit martyrs / G.O. Prieur.

Memorias del quinto Coloquio de Medicina Tradicional Mexicana : un saber de extensión / [comité organizador, Magda Luz Atrian Salazar and others].

Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 / By J. Carver, esq. captain of a company of provincial troops during the late war with France. Illustrated with copper plates.

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Indians, North American

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Paper medicine man : John Gregory Bourke and his American West / Joseph C. Porter.

Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors / by Bobette Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, Victoria Krueger.

René Goupil, surgeon : the first of the Jesuit martyrs / G.O. Prieur.

Memorias del quinto Coloquio de Medicina Tradicional Mexicana : un saber de extensión / [comité organizador, Magda Luz Atrian Salazar and others].

Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 / By J. Carver, esq. captain of a company of provincial troops during the late war with France. Illustrated with copper plates.

Indians, North American

Images from the collections

Images referencing Indians, North American

Works from the collections

Paper medicine man : John Gregory Bourke and his American West / Joseph C. Porter.

Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors / by Bobette Perrone, H. Henrietta Stockel, Victoria Krueger.

René Goupil, surgeon : the first of the Jesuit martyrs / G.O. Prieur.

Memorias del quinto Coloquio de Medicina Tradicional Mexicana : un saber de extensión / [comité organizador, Magda Luz Atrian Salazar and others].

Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 / By J. Carver, esq. captain of a company of provincial troops during the late war with France. Illustrated with copper plates.

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