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THE fifth volume of Baron Nordenskiold's valuable series of Comparative Ethnographical Studies deals with the distribution of words used by the Indians for certain post-Columbian elements in their culture- the domestic fowl, horses and cattle, the banana, iron, firearms, scissors-and certain partly post-Columbian elements-European knives, needles, and fish-hooks. Of these words some are of Spanish or Portuguese derivation, others are of native invention and are onomatopoeic, as sometimes for the fowl, or purely descriptive.
Comparative Ethnographical Studies, 5: Deductions suggested by the Geographical Distribution of some Post-Columbian Words used by the Indians of S. America.
By Erland Nordenskiold. Pp. xiv + 176. (London: Oxford University Press, 1922.) 18s. 6d. net.
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Comparative Ethnographical Studies, 5: Deductions suggested by the Geographical Distribution of some Post-Columbian Words used by the Indians of S America. Nature 111, 665 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111665a0
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