vii, [1], 683 pp. + plates. With 19 (of 21) chromolithograph plates of Native Americans, etc. (2 are folding titled "The Race" and "Omaha Dance" by Walter Shirlaw), plus others by Julian Scott, with tissue-guards; 2 sepia-tone lithograph plates; 157 plates from numerous photographs; 18 plates from drawings (2 in color by a Comanche boy); 8 plates from paintings; 3 folding color lithograph maps (showing Indian Reservations in the U.S. by T.J. Morgan, Linguistic Stocks of American Indians by J.W. Powell, etc.); 22 full-page maps (2 with coloring, 6 double-page and 4 are folding); plus numerous tables and a few facsimiles. (4to) 11¼x9¼, original black cloth.

The single most valuable compilation of information known to the U.S. government at the close of the 19th century about the remaining American Indians, broken down by state and tribe, with countless photo plates, striking chromolithographs, folding color maps showing tribal distribution, etc. Issued by the Census Office at the U.S. Department of the Interior by Robert P. Porter (Superintendent) amd Carroll D. Wright (Commissioner of Labor).