Bulletin, Issue 63U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - America |
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... least , distinct , but the physical and cultural differences are in the main less marked between the Yahgans and Alacaluf than between these two tribes on the one hand and the Onas on the other . Of the Haush or Mánekenkn subtribe and ...
... least , distinct , but the physical and cultural differences are in the main less marked between the Yahgans and Alacaluf than between these two tribes on the one hand and the Onas on the other . Of the Haush or Mánekenkn subtribe and ...
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... least cruised nearly to the Straits of Lemaire ( de Brosses , II , 208 ) . To the west they reached as far as the western end of Beagle Channel , and , on Tierra del Fuego Island's shores and some of the islands to the southwest , even ...
... least cruised nearly to the Straits of Lemaire ( de Brosses , II , 208 ) . To the west they reached as far as the western end of Beagle Channel , and , on Tierra del Fuego Island's shores and some of the islands to the southwest , even ...
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... least . The canoe - using natives of Brunswick Peninsula and King William IV Land were called Guaïcaros according to Señor Lista ( d ; e , 41 ) , while Señor Cox spoke ( 1624 , 165 ) of a supposedly mixed Tehuel- chean and Fuegian ...
... least . The canoe - using natives of Brunswick Peninsula and King William IV Land were called Guaïcaros according to Señor Lista ( d ; e , 41 ) , while Señor Cox spoke ( 1624 , 165 ) of a supposedly mixed Tehuel- chean and Fuegian ...
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... least 80 to 90 per cent of the cases , so closely , in fact , that there can be no reasonable doubt that they represent the same language . The same is true of Fe . G agrees in quite the majority of cases with Bo , Sk , and Fe , as do ...
... least 80 to 90 per cent of the cases , so closely , in fact , that there can be no reasonable doubt that they represent the same language . The same is true of Fe . G agrees in quite the majority of cases with Bo , Sk , and Fe , as do ...
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... least 10 per cent and probably considerably more . The majority of words for which the Yahgan equivalent is given in the notes to the preceding glossary are clearly of Yahgan provenance . The proxi- mate publication of the Rev. Mr ...
... least 10 per cent and probably considerably more . The majority of words for which the Yahgan equivalent is given in the notes to the preceding glossary are clearly of Yahgan provenance . The proxi- mate publication of the Rev. Mr ...
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Admiral Fitz-Roy Alacaluf Alacalufan anthropology Araucanian Archipelago Beagle Channel Beauvoir Bibliography Bove Brosses Buenos Aires Byron Canoe Indians Capt Caucahues chiefly Chiloé Chilotan Chonoan Chonos Chonos Archipelago Cojazzi Coppinger cultural data Dabbene Dawson Island Despard Engl especially expedition Father Fuégiens Furlong Gallardo García geogr Goicueta Guaitecas Islands Gulf of Peñas Haush hidr Hultkrantz Hyades ibid important language Lehmann-Nitsche linguistic Lista London Lovisato Lozano Lucas Bridges Mánekenkn Martial Mission missionaries Moraleda narrative natives Onan Onas Paris Patagonian channels plank boat Port Gallant probably Prof Rosales Salesian Santiago de Chile Segers Shilk'nam skel Skottsberg skull somatology sources Spegazzini stature Strait of Magellan Success Bay Taitao Peninsula Techo Tehuelches territory Tierra del Fuego tion unimportant notes Vargas Ponce vocabulary voyage West Patagonian words passim Yahgan culture Yahgan words Yahgans and Alacaluf
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Page 162 - ... people who must of necessity take the law into their own hands. The friends of the fighting parties intervene, both by persuasion and by force, to restore peace, but often the fight develops into a general melee. A murderer becomes an outcast, abandoned by all, and will sooner or later be killed. ' Among the Onas homicide is much more common, Mr. Lucas Bridges stating that " there are few Onas over 30 years of age who have not killed one of their own people in revenge ". The intrusion of white...
Page 139 - Alacalufan stock, believed in "an evil spirit, called Yaccy-ma, who they think is able to do all kinds of mischief, cause bad weather, famine, illness, etc. He is supposed to be like an immense black man.
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