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"Swanton, John R."

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 Swanton, John R. (detail)
   
1922
Early history of the Creek Indians and their neighbors.
Bull. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 73: 1-492.
–Quotes manuscripts of Lopez de Velasco to the effect that the Tekesta Indians of southeast Florida hunted manatees by jumping on their backs and driving stakes into their nostrils. They then took two bones from the manatee's head and placed these in the coffins of their dead (389).
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 Swanton, John R. (detail)
   
1946
The Indians of the southeastern United States.
Bull. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 137: xiii + 943. 107 pls.
–Again quotes Velasco to the effect that the southeast Florida Indians killed manatees by driving stakes into their nostrils (329); suggests there was confusion with manatees in accounts describing similar methods of hunting cetaceans (297-298, 329). Swanton interprets the "two large bones" from the manatee's head that were placed in graves as "tusks" (250, 282); doubtless they were really the periotic bones.
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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