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Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture. (book reviews)

American Indian Quarterly, The,  January, 1996  by Starna, William A.

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Tooker, Elisabeth. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. xiii + 325 pp. Illustrations, plates, map, pppendices, notes, bibliography, index.

The importance and intellectual contributions of Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to the history and development of anthropology are, of course, well known. His League of the Ho-de'-no-sau'-nee, or Iroquois (1851) is regarded generally as the first ethnography of an American Indian tribe. This was followed by Morgan's three great theoretical works, Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871), Ancient Society (1877), ...

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