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South America,1917, 1947 - Bureau of Ethnology, Tierra del Fuego and Andean, (South America)

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South America,1917, 1947 - Bureau of Ethnology, Tierra del Fuego and Andean, (South America)
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Lot of 2. 1) Analytical and Critical Bibliography of the Tribes of Tierra del Fuego and Adjacent Territory. Cooper, John M. Bulletin No. 63 (1917). Attempts to "find what light and intensive study of the available resources [on tribes] would throw on the culture, particularly the religion and morality, and on the cultural relations, of one of the most primitive of aboriginal American groups" [from the preface]. What started out as a report became a bibliography. Includes general division of area tribes (Yahgans, Alacaluf, Chonos, and Onas), early writers and explorers, languages, maps, etc. Hardbound in green cloth. 233 pp. 6" x 9". 2) Handbook of South American Indians, Vol. 2 The Andean Civilizations. Steward, Julian H., Ed. Bulletin 143 (1946). Includes many photographs of Andean tribes. Also with photographic plates of artifacts of area tribes. Covers the high-culture, farming peoples of the Andean highlands and the Pacific Coast from Columbia to Central Chile. Massive volume of 1035 pp. Hardbound in green cloth. 6" x 9". - Vinegar Collection