AUTHOR BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 Prefatory Notes 



The hibliography includes the sources for the study of the Onas, 

 Yahgans, Alacaluf, and Chonos. Those for the Tehuelches might 

 have been mcluded, but to have done so would have carried the 

 writer too far afield. 



Throughout anthropological and kindred literature occur hundreds 

 of brief second-hand notes on the Fuegians. The bulk of these 

 references were too unimportant to justify their inclusion in the 

 present bibliography. But all first-hand sources, however brief and 

 unimportant, that have come to the writer's attention, have been 

 included, as have also those second-hand sources wliich sum up a 

 considerable portion of the field or else tlu-ow some light on Fuegian 

 and Chonoan anthropology by discussion or suggestion. 



Where the writer has been unable to consult and review personally 

 any article or book, he has stated the bibliography or other source 

 whence the title has been taken, together with what dependable data 

 regarduig the reference he could gather. 



The gi-eat majority of first-hand observers have had at most a few 

 hours of contact with the natives while en route through the archi- 

 pelago. Such accounts have been characterized as based on "casual 

 meetings." They are chiefly of value for material culture. 



The name "Channel Alacaluf" or "Channel Indians" has been 

 used to denote the canoe-using Indians of the West Patagonian chan- 

 nels between the western mouth of the Strait of Magellan and the 

 Gulf of Penas. 



The present bibliography being intended as a practical or working 

 guide, some of the data usually given in a technical bibliography 

 have been omitted. 



From the enormous mass of literature dealmg with the history of 

 early exploration hi the Magellanic archipelago, those narratives, 

 editions, and translations — origmals preferred where accessible — have 

 been included which would be more readily available to the student 

 with orchnary libraiy facilities. No attempt has been made to 

 exhaust this field. Further data regarding editions and translations 

 can be found in bibhographical works like those of Tiele, Sabin, and 

 Medhia. Those early nan-atives, like LeMaire's, for instance, which, 

 however important to the geographer or historian, contain no infor- 

 mation on the natives, have been omitted. 



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