ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 



OF THE TRIBES OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



AND ADJACENT TERRITORY 



By John M, Cooper 



INTRODUCTION 

 Scope of the Present Work 



The present paper is intended as a practical or working guide to 

 the sources for Fuegian and Chonoan antlu'opology. Witli this end 

 in view, the writer has endeavored, first, to gather together, analyze, 

 and evaluate the extant written sources; secondly, to draw up lists 

 of references covering the various phases of anthropology; and 

 thirdly, to sift the available material for aU evidence that might help 

 toward clearing up obscure or debated points. 



The work is divided into three parts: The Introduction^ the Bibli- 

 ography of Authors, and the Bibliogi^aphy of Subjects. 



The Introduction treats of the names, divisions, territories, and 

 present conditions of the Fuegian and Chonoan Indians, and gives a 

 short histoiy of investigation with a summary of what has been 

 accomplished and of what still remains to bo done. The perplexing 

 problem of the relations of the Alacaluf of the Strait of Magellan to 

 the Chonos and natives of the West Patagonian Channels has called 

 for somewhat extensive treatment. 



The Author Bibliography aims to give an analysis and critical 

 appreciation of each book and article, briefly or more at length in 

 proportion to the importance of the work from the standpoint of the 

 anthropologist. Nearly aU second-hand works, and even most of the 

 first-hand sources, demanded only short annotations; for, while the 

 list of those who have written of the Fuegians and Chonos from per- 

 sonal observation is a comparatively long one, extending through 

 nearly four centuries, the great majority of these explorers have had 

 at the most merely a few hours of contact with the natives. Their 

 descriptions are nearly always exact, and often valuable for the more 

 obvious phases of material culture, but in most other respects have 

 to be used with caution. 



