Indian Days In The Canadian Rockies.

MARIUS BARBEAU

Publication: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1923, Toronto

First edition. Two-tone cloth & boards, maps on end-papers, frontis (colored portrait), [8], 207 (1) pp., introduction, numerous illustrations, all in color, addenda, sources & references. The colored illustrations by W. Langdon Kihn are remarkable. A captivating ethnographic and folkloric account that offers a glimpse into the traditional life, stories, and customs of Indigenous peoples living in the Canadian Rockies during the early 20th century. Much on Sioux, Stony, Piegans, Kootenays, Swampy-Crees, et al. Covers lightly soiled, plates lightly foxed, else a very good copy.