A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and OrnamentSixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) (Edition1)

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