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Elephants and ethnologists, by G. Elliot Smith; woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton.

Title
Elephants and ethnologists, by G. Elliot Smith; woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton.
Author
Smith, Grafton Elliot, Sir, 1871-1937.
Publication
London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1924.

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Description
viii, 135 p. incl. front., illus., pl., map. 51 pl. on 32 ℓ.; 26 cm.
Summary
"One of [the] ... stelae [at Copan, Honduras] now distinguished by archæologists by the letter B, is the chief topic of discussion in this book."--Page 21.
Subject
  • Animals in art
  • Copán Site (Honduras)
  • Copán (Honduras)
  • Indians of Central America > Culture
  • Makara (Hindu mythological character)
  • Makara
  • Mayas
Note
  • "One of [the] ...stelae [at Copan, Honduras] now distinguished by archæologists by the letter B, is the chief topic of discussion in this book." --p. 21.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography note (pages 11-19)-The nature of the problem.-Other representations of the elephant.-The makara.-The spiral ornament.-The date of the diffusion of culture to America.-The significance of Indo-China.
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Contents
Bibliography note (p. 11-19)--The nature of the problem.--Other representations of the elephant.--The makara.--The spiral ornament.--The date of the diffusion of culture to America.--The significance of Indo-China.
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^^^24029197^
OCLC
1524304
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library