The Last Of The Seris by Dane Coolidge and Mary Roberts Coolidge Published in 1939 by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Sonora Island Natives

The Last Of The Seris by Dane Coolidge and Mary Roberts Coolidge. Published in 1939 by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. New York. Illustrated by Dane Coolidge. First edition. Faded rust color boards with black designs and black text on spine. Cloth boards. Some bumping to corners and edges of spine. Spine is stable, first few pages are loose. No missing or torn pages. Rough cut pages. Some foxing/staining on inside covers and first couple of pages. Clean pages, no markings. Natural tanning of pages related to age. Text is clean. No dust jacket. Contents include- The Seri Love Song, Introduction, Seri Customs and Manners, Seri Clans, Seri War Stories, The Fish Dance, The Happy Song, and much more. Please see pictures or message me for additional information. This book would be a great gift, can be used for reference, or can be added to your book collection!

From Wikipedia-

Dane Coolidge (March 24, 1873 - August 8, 1940) was an American author, naturalist, and photographer. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, and articles featuring the American West. He wrote short stories for magazines and made illustrations. His book Rimrock Jones was adapted into the film Rimrock Jones. The Smithsonian Museum has three of his photographs in its collection. He wrote several dozen novels and many tens of short stories. Coolidge was born in Natick, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Coolidge and Sophia (née Whittemore) Coolidge. His father had a farm in Riverside, California. He grew up in Riverside and went to Stanford University and did postgraduate work at Harvard University. Coolidge collected animal specimens for the British Museum, Stanford University, the U.S. National Zoological Park,New York Zoological Park, and the United States Natural History Museum. He was a charting member of the American Society of Mammalogists. He was married to sociologist Mary Roberts Coolidge on July 30, 1906, in Berkeley. They wrote The Navajo Indians in 1930. They also studied and photographed the Seri people in the 1930s and wrote the book The Last of the Seris.

The Seri or Comcaac are an indigenous group of the Mexican state of Sonora. The majority reside on the Seri communal property (Spanish, ejido), in the towns of Punta Chueca (Seri: Socaaix) and El Desemboque (Seri: Haxöl Iihom) on the mainland coast of the Gulf of California. Tiburón Island (Tahejöc) and San Esteban Island (Cofteecöl and sometimes Hast) were also part of their traditional territory. They maintain an intimate relationship with both the sea and the land. They are one of the ethnic groups of Mexico that has most strongly maintained their language and culture throughout the years after contact with Spanish and Mexican cultures.