Bibliography Record

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Landa, Diego de (detail)
   
1941
Landa's Relación de las cosas de Yucatan. (A. M. Tozzer, ed.)
Papers Peabody Mus. Archaeol. Ethnol. 18: xiii + 394.
–De Landa's MS., dating from 1566, was first publ. in 1864; this is ed. 8. Durand (1983: 66-67) reprints the manatee material from the ed. of Héctor Pérez Martínez, México, 1938. The 1941 ed. includes a brief gen. acc. of "sea-cows" (misidentified by the editor as T. m. latirostris) being used for meat and fat in Yucatan (190-191). It also gives an interesting description of harpooning of manatees, and claims (implausibly) that "bats are accustomed to prick them" in the snout, causing death from loss of blood!

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Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x 1941 Landa, D. de (TMM; Yucatan; meat, fat; 16th century; 190-191.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1941 Landa, D. de (TMM; Yucatan; harpoons; 16th century; 190-191.)

Mexico
(SEE ALSO: Baja California; Central America)
  x * 1941 Landa, D. de (TMM; Yucatan; hunting, 16th century; 190-191.)

Natural Enemies
(SEE ALSO: Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1941 Landa, D. de (TMM; Yucatan; bats; 191.)

Trichechus manatus manatus Linnaeus, 1758, Hatt, 1934
  x v * 1941 Landa, D. de ("TML"; Yucatan; hunting, 16th century; 190-191.)


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