Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1912. 4to (28.9 x 21.6 cm). cviii, 396 pp.; ten plates including one in full colour acting as frontispiece and one being a map; one folded chart (with music), 30 text figures. Original printed wrappers.

A well-illustrated monograph on the Cora-Indians from the Sierra del Nayarit in northwestern Mexico, divided into several sections, including a dictionary and annotated music scores. The photos show a world gone by. Konrad Theodor Preuss (1869-1938) was a German ethnologist interested in Latin America "From 1905 to 1907 he undertook research trips to Mexico to the Cora and Huicholes of the Sierra Madre Occidental. In 1912 he became as a professor of ethnology. He gave lectures on ethnography and archaeology at the Friedrich Wilhelms University, Berlin. From 1920, Preuss headed the North and Central America section of the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin" (German Wikipedia). Uncut. Sewing broken due to the heavy book block; the wrappers detached and chipped at edges; the adjacent leaves less so, and generally in very good condition, clean except for some minor, scattered spotting. Rare.