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The north-west Amazons: notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes / by Thomas Whiffen ...
LIBRA - Temporarily Unavailable 980.3 WW577
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whiffen, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley.
- Indians of South America.
- Amazon River Valley.
- Witoto Indians.
- Bora Indians.
- Putumayo River Valley.
- Japurá River Valley (Colombia and Brazil).
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 319 pages : illustrations 56 plates (including frontispiece) 5 maps (3 folded) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Constable and Company, Ltd., 1915.
- Notes:
- "My field of exploration, the tract between the middle. Inca and Japura rivers, and in their vicinity. Roughly speaking, this lies in that debatable land where the frontiers of Brazil meet those of Peru, Colombia, and--perhaps--Ecuador." p. 17.
- "The two groups (of Indians) with which we are mainly concerned ... are the Witoto and the Boro"--P. 17.
- "Vocabularies and lists of names" (Witoto and Boro, : p. 296-310.).
- Index: p. 315-319
- OCLC:
- 6478395
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