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27 cm x 17.2 cm, unpaginated [30 pages + 9 pages with mounted (pasted-on) illustrations], a total of 13 illustrations (complete), all mounted. Original printed wrappers with yapp edges, two-holed ribbon binding and staples, illustration mounted to front cover. Yapp edges chipped with short tears, as usual, large chip missing from head of spine, otherwise a very good, clean and complete copy of a rare item. "The aim in this book has been simply to describe briefly the totems, and the legends connected with them. All these poles may be seen in the usual tourist visit to Southeastern Alaska . No totem is treated in this work which has not been ceremonially erected." - from the Conclusion. Contents include: The Story of the Thlinget People The Legend of the Raven The Legend of the Eagle The Legend of the Kayak The Legend of Ka-ha-sa-li The Legend of the Beaver The Legend of the Kit Chief Shake's House and Totems The Legend of the Wolf Chief Johnson's Totem Sitka Memorial Totem Notes on Kassan Conclusion.

Octavo (24.5 cm x 16 cm). Original salmon-coloured printed wrappers, title-page reproduced on front cover, pamphlet-stitched binding. From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1897, pages: 349 - 645 with 5 plates (frontispiece and 4 maps). Profusely illustrated throughout with 239 text figures. Top edge trimmed, others deckled. Chipping to spine ends and fore-edge, 4 cm part at tail of front cover and spine edge, front cover and deckled edges dust soiled, else very good copy, interior bright and clean. Contents include: Mexican and Pueblo tubular pipes; Tubular pipes of the North American Indians generally; Early references to the use of tobacco; Pipe bowls without stems; Heavy animal and bird pipes; Use of pipes and tobacco by the whites; Monitor pipes; Rectangular pipes; Micmac pipes; Disk pipes; Iroquoian pipes; Bird pipes; Calumet and wampum; Mound pipes; Double conoidal pipes; Idol pipes; Great pipes; The calumet dance; Catlinite and Siouan types; Pipes of the Northwest coast; Miscellaneous Pueblo pipes; Delaware types; Indeterminate types; Southern types; Some unique types; Atlantic coast pipes; Southern mound pipes; Summary; and Additional notes.

Section II, 1891. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada . (Read May 27, 1891), Quarto. (29.8 cm x 22.3 cm), pp. 45-59 + 2 plates. Peach-coloured printed wraps, sewn binding. Lacking rear cover. Fragile front cover chipped along bottom edge and spine, cover dust soiled, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce item. (Not found in Lowther).

Quarto. (28 cm x 18.8 cm), pp. 263-273. Green printed card covers, pamphlet-stitched binding. Cover margins faded to brown, first text page (p.263) tanned with soiling to edges, else quite good.

Octavo. (24.5 x 16 cm), pp. [xiii], 86; 4 facsimiles. Grey printed paper wraps, stapled binding. Unopened, uncut copy. Lightly soiled covers with tanned spine and margins, spine chipped primarily at head & tail, else very good copy.

Octavo. (24.8 x 16.6 cm), pp. 23. Beige printed card covers, stapled binding. Tiny nick at spine end, else near fine copy. Text in French. Similar to the English version published in 1929, except does not contain the essays by Diamond Jenness and P.A. Taverner.