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Auction 206, Lot 292

"Map Showing the Distribution of the Indian Tribes of Washington Territory Compiled from the Latest Authorities to Illustrate a Paper by the Late Geo. Gibbs", U.S. Department of Interior

Subject: Washington

Period: 1876 (dated)

Publication: Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume I

Color: Printed Color

Size:
15.6 x 20.1 inches
39.6 x 51.1 cm
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This map is a detailed examination of the Indian Tribes west of the Cascades. A legend provides the key to the coloring of the tribes. It identifies the tribes of Tsihali-Sel and Niskwalli-Sel (from the Selish Family), Tsinuk (Tsinuk Family), Klikatat (Sahaptin Family), Makah (Nutka Family), and the Owillapsh Tribe of the Tinneh Family. A note states that the official spelling of the tribal names are reduced to their phonetic value. The map locates the Niskwalli, Swiwamish, Muckleshoot, Chelalis, and Shoalwater Indian Reservations, to name a few. The only railroad exists between Kalama and Tacoma. Compiled by W.H. Dall, U.S. Coast Survey, and published by the Bureau of Ethnology, a short-lived agency, that was renamed the American Bureau of Ethnology in 1897 and eventually merged with the Smithsonian Institution in 1965.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding with a bit of toning and color offsetting.

Estimate: $200 - $230

Sold for: $110

Closed on 11/12/2025

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