Scientific Serials
1884; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 31; Issue: 787 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/031094b0
ISSN1476-4687
Tópico(s)Australian Indigenous Culture and History
ResumoJournal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain ant Ireland, November 1884.—The ethnology of Egyptian Soudan, a timely and important paper, by Prof. A. H. Keane.—Additional observations on the osteology of the natives of the Andaman Islands, by Prof. Flower. —The Kubus, a small tribe in Central Sumatra, by Mr. Forbes. —Notes on prehistoric remains in Antiparos, by Mr. Theodoie Bent.—The Deme and the Horde, by Messrs. Howitt and Fison; an attempt to show a resemblance between the general organisation and usages of the Attic tribes and those of the Australian aborigines.—African symbolic messages, by the Rev. C. Gollmer, describing the method in which natives of the Yoruba country send messages to absent friends by means of shells, feathers, corn, stone, coal, sticks, &c.—On the size of teeth as a character of race, by Prof. Flower.—A Hindu prophetess, by Mr. Walhouse. —On certain less familiar forms of Palaeolithic flint implements from the gravel at Reading, by Mr. Shrubsole.
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