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Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee
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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.
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Related Index Records (3)
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Archeological Sites, Sirenia at
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1883 |
Henshaw, H.W. (supposed manatee effigies among stone tobacco pipes; Mississippi Valley) |
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Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
(= Trichechus manatus; also used by many authors for T. inunguis)
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1883 |
Henshaw, H.W. (supposed manatee effigies among stone tobacco pipes; Mississippi Valley) |
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Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
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1883 |
Henshaw, H.W. (supposed manatee effigies among stone tobacco pipes; Mississippi Valley) |
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