A PUBERTY CEREMONY OF THE MISSION INDIANS

Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The New Era Printing Company, 1906. Wraps. Very good. First separate printing, reprinted from the American Anthropologist, Vol. 8, No. 1, January-March, 1906. Stamped “Compliments of H.N. Rust, South Pasadena, Cala.” on the first page. Tall octavo: 28-32, [3, blanks] pp. with a plate. Bound with staples in the original printed paper wrappers. Light toning along the extremities; else very good.

The author described a puberty ceremony he attended in 1889 of the Mission Indians at Campo, near the Mexican border with California. (Inventory #: 78042)