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"Henshaw, Henry Wethe"

 
 
 Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee (detail)
   
1883
Animal carvings from mounds of the Mississippi Valley.
Second Ann. Rept. of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Inst., 1880-81 (Washington, Govt. Printing Office): 117-166. Illus.
–Available online at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18184.
  Supposed effigies of manatees from Indian mounds, 125-133, figs. 4-13. Henshaw debunks the identifications (going back to Squier & Davis, 1848) of these carved tobacco pipes as manatees, concluding that they more likely represent otters.
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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