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Anthropological Institute, June 27.—General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—Mr. Villiers Stuart, M.P., exhibited and described a drawing of the funeral canopy or tent of an Egyptian queen, and some casts of bas-reliefs discovered by him within a short distance of the tent.—Mr. E. H. Man read a further account of the natives of the Andaman Islands, in which he treated more particularly of their home life; the food and methods of cooking were fully described; also the games, amusements, and dances.—A communication was received from Mr. H. C. R. Becher on some Mexican terra-cotta figures found near the ancient pyramids of San Juan Teotihuacan; from a comparison of these figures with those in the museum at Palermo the author argued that they were produced by people of the same race, and that the builders of these ancient monuments were Phœnicians.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 26, 287–288 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026287a0
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