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Identifier: annualreportofbu117smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Fig. 22—African archery posture snakes and lizards, and a good many insects, besides various birds,including hawks and owls, as well as the eaters of seeds and insects.The crow and vulture are also classed as edible, though they are rarein Seriland, probably because of the effective scavengering of theprovince by its human residents. It is a signiticant fact that the BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXIX
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SERI ARCHER AT ATTENTION MCGEK) THE TABU SQUIRREL 203* smaller rodents, especially the long-tail nocturnal squirrel, areexcluded from the Seri menu by a rigidly observed tabu of undiscov-ered meaning. A general consequence of this tabu is readily observedon entering Seriland; there is a notable rarity of the ser))ents, thehigh-colored and swift efts, and the logy lizards and dull i)hrynosoinasso abundant in neighboring deserts, as well as of song birds and theirnests; and this dearth is coupled with a still more notable abundanceof the rodents, which have increased and multiplied throughout Seri-land so abundantly that their burrows honeycomb hundreds of squaremiles of territory. A special consequence of the tabu is found in thefact that the myriad squirrel tunnels have rendered much of the terri-tory impassable for horses and nearly so for pedestrians, and havethereby served to repel invaders and enable the jealous tribesmen toprotect their principality against the hated alien. Seril

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Smithsonian_Institution__Bureau_of_American_Ethnology
  • booksubject:Ethnology
  • booksubject:Indians
  • bookpublisher:Washington___U__S__Govt__Print__Off_
  • bookcontributor:Boston_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:Kahle_Austin_Foundation_and_Omidyar_Network
  • bookleafnumber:360
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