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Elephants and ethnologists / by G. Elliot Smith; woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of Central America--Civilization.
- Mayas.
- Indians of Central America.
- Civilization.
- Copán Site (Honduras).
- Animals in art.
- Makara.
- Makara (Hindu mythological character).
- Elephants in art.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 135 p. including frontispiece, illustrations, plates, map. : 51 plates on 32 l. ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1924.
- Contents:
- Bibliographical note (p. 11-19)
- The nature of the problem.
- Other representations of the elephant.
- The makara.
- The spiral ornament.
- The date of the diffusion of culture to America.
- The significance of Indo-China.
- Notes:
- "One of [the] ... stelae [at Copan, Honduras] now distinguished by archaeologists by the letter B, is the chief topic of discussion in this book."--p. 21.
- OCLC:
- 1524304
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