Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley
by Henry W. Henshaw
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- Author
- Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930
- Title
- Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166
- Credits
- Produced by Verity White, PM for Bureau of American Ethnology and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E011: History: America: America
- Subject
- Animal sculpture -- Mississippi River Valley
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 18184
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18184
- Release Date
- April 17, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.
- 2.ANIMAL CARVINGS — FROM — MOUNDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. — BY — HENRY W. HENSHAW.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.ANIMAL CARVINGS FROM MOUNDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. — BY H. W. HENSHAW.
- 6.INTRODUCTORY. — MANATEE. — TOUCAN. — PAROQUET.
- 7.KNOWLEDGE OF TROPICAL ANIMALS BY MOUND-BUILDERS. — OTHER ERRORS OF IDENTIFICATION.
- 8.SKILL IN SCULPTURE OF MOUND-BUILDERS. — GENERALIZATION NOT DESIGNED. — PROBABLE TOTEMIC ORIGIN.
- 9.ANIMAL MOUNDS. — THE "ELEPHANT" MOUND. — THE "ALLIGATOR" MOUND.
- 10.HUMAN SCULPTURES.
- 11.INDIAN AND MOUND-BUILDERS' ART COMPARED. — GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.
- 12.INDEX.
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