

Review of Wissler's "The American Indian 



By ALBERT ERNEST J E X K S 



Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota 



THIS new book b}' Clark Wissler, 

 (if the American Museum, pre- 

 sents in a singularly unbiased 

 and unpedantic manner a critical sum- 

 mary of the important anthropological 

 facts of the Xew World. It is, besides, 

 a cyclopedia of anthropological sources 

 for the Western Hemisphere. 



Xo one in America, or elsewhere for 

 that matter, is better equipped than 

 Dr. Wissler to prepare such a book. 

 His thorough theoretical training is 

 combined with extensive practical field 

 experience. To these is added a most 

 valuable development due to a free op- 



portunity in a great museum to plan 

 his departmental work for a long pe- 

 riod of years and systematically to 

 work out his plan. He holds in his 

 hands the anthropological purview of 

 the Western Hemisphere — so far as 

 scientific data are now available. Not 

 until an immense amount of new data 

 has been collected is it conceivable that 

 another book will be likely to appear in 

 the field Dr. Wissler has covered. The 

 success of his endeavor is the occasion 

 of keen appreciation on the part of his 

 colleagues in America and the rest of 

 the anthropological world. 



^ The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World, 435 pages, with 

 illustrations, maps, complete bibliography, by Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator of Anthropology, Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, New York City. (Doiiglas C. McMurtrie. 1917.) 



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