No. 9. — Dogs of the American Ahoricjincs. 

 By Glover M. Allen. 



CONTENTS. 



Intixxluction ..... 



Acknowledgements 



Origin of the Domestic Dog . 



Origin of Amei'ican Dogs 



Breeds of American Aboriginal Dogs 



Eskimo Dog .... 



Plains-Indian Dog . 



8ioux Dog .... 



Long-haired Pueblo Dog 



Larger or Common Indian Dog 



Klamath-Indian Dog 



Shoit-Iegged Indian Dog 



Clallam-Indian Dog 



Inca Dog .... 



Long-haired Inca Dog 



Patagonian Dog 



Mexican Hairless Dog 



Small Indian Dog or Techichi 



Hare- Indian Dog 



Fuegian Dog .... 



Short-nosed Indian Dog (Pachycyon) 



Peruvian Pug-nosed Dog 

 Summary ..... 

 Bibliography .... 



Explanation of the Plates 



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Introduction. 



When Columbus, in 1492, made his discovery of land in the Western 

 Hemisphere, he found it already peopled by a race of men who are 

 considered by modern ethnologists to be of Asiatic origin, and probal)ly 

 of an anticjuity dating back not many thousands of years. Yet these 

 aboriginal peoples were considerably diversified as to appearance, 

 language, and customs. In South America, the Incas had domesti- 

 cated animals, llamas and alpacas, whose wild progenitors are the last 



