Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Simone Martini, Raphaelle Peale and Matthew Harris Jouett. The mythologies of the peoples of North America - Algonquin, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, the tribes of the northwest coast - set side by side with their creation stories and heroes. Spence worked from the ethnographic reports being published in his day. This edition is bound with 58 plates of paintings, among them works by George Catlin, Frederic Remington and Benozzo Gozzoli, ranging in date from 1270 to 1928.