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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This is a 47 page author's reprint from a larger bound volume. Includes discussion of copper, galena, obsidian, mica, slate, flint, red pipestone, shells, and pearls with a discussion of division of labor. Inscribed to "Thomas W. Field Esq. with complements of Charles Rau." Rau (1826-1987) was curator of the National Museum and Field was a book collector and bibliographer of Native Americana. In summarizing his conclusions of the transition from Native people to Europeans that "in succumbing to the overwhelming power of Caucasians, they shared the fate of every inferior race that takes up the contest with one occupying a higher rank in the family of men.".…