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... Oceania to America , the In- dians of the latter Continent were already agriculturists at the time when that importation took place . Had they not been agriculturists , they would not have learnt to cultivate these plants unless ...
... Oceania to America , the In- dians of the latter Continent were already agriculturists at the time when that importation took place . Had they not been agriculturists , they would not have learnt to cultivate these plants unless ...
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... Oceania . It is of course not impossible that the Polynesian name of this plant has lived on ever since the time it first became known in America ; we know how conservatively the Arawakian word for maize survives among Arawak tribes ...
... Oceania . It is of course not impossible that the Polynesian name of this plant has lived on ever since the time it first became known in America ; we know how conservatively the Arawakian word for maize survives among Arawak tribes ...
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... Oceania , too , quipus are known , as e . g . from the Marquesas Islands , and it is usual to count quipus among such culture elements as the Indians have in common with Oceania . The question however naturally presents itself as to ...
... Oceania , too , quipus are known , as e . g . from the Marquesas Islands , and it is usual to count quipus among such culture elements as the Indians have in common with Oceania . The question however naturally presents itself as to ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Culture elements known to the Indians but unknown in the | 8 |
How different tribes have adapted themselves to their | 26 |
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16th century Amazonas region Andean Appendix Arawak arrows Ashluslay Authors or Museum Aymara bee-hives bee-keeping bees Bolivia borrowed bridge Carajá Caribs carrying pole ceramics Chané Chiriguano Chocó Chocó Indians Choroti clay vessels colmenas Colombia cultivated plants culture elements culture loans Cuna Cuna Indians Discovery distribution enema enema syringes European example feathers Gran Chaco Guarani Guiana hollow rubber balls honey Huari huts important Inca Incan independently invented Indian culture Indian invention Indian tribes indios influence iron kind knots known KOCH-GRÜNBERG latter learnt maize manioc manufacture Map Tribes Authors Mataco mentioned ments metal method migrations Mojos Motilones Museum numbers negroes NORDENSKIÖLD North Oceania Old World Omagua origin ornaments OVIEDO Peru pincers possess post-Columbian pre-Columbian primitive probably pump-drill Quichua quipus RIVET and VERNEAU shaft signalling gong South America spread stone sweet potato Tapiete Teponatzli tion tube western South America whilst whites wooden