Bibliography Record

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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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Florida
  x 1922 Swanton, J.R. (TML; hunting by Indians; 389.)

Hunting and Capture
(SEE ALSO: Accidental Death or Injury; Archeological Sites, Sirenians at; Captivity, Sirenians in; Conservation; Economic Use; Natural Enemies; Weed Control)
  x 1922 Swanton, J.R. (TML; Florida; by Indians; 389.)

Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
  x 1922 Swanton, J.R. (TML; Florida; bones in graves; 389.)

Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) Hatt, 1934
  x v 1922 Swanton, J.R. (Florida; hunting by Indians; 389.)


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