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Bove, Giacomo — Continued 



(e) Giacomo Bove iiber die Feuer- 

 lander. (In Globus, Braunschweig, 

 Jan.-June, 1883, xliii, 156-159.) 



A summary of the Fuegian cultural data gath- 

 ered from Capt. Bove's publications. The stature 

 measurements and vocabulary are omitted. 



(/) Viaggio alia Terra del Fuoco, 

 Roma, 1884, 102 pp. (Reference from 

 Anrique, p. 418.) 



See also Cora, Keane, a, and von Feilitzen, 

 articles from Capt. Bove's publications. 



Capt. Bove's studies are among our most im- 

 portant sources for Yahgan culture and to a 

 lesser extent for Yahgan linguistics and soma- 

 tology. His observations were confined almost 

 exclusively to the Yahgans diuing the two 

 months he spent in eastern Fuegia from May 1 

 to the end of June, 1882. During this time he 

 had almost continuous contact with the Yahgans, 

 but very slight acquaintance with the Ona and 

 Alacaluf. He was an exact and careful ob- 

 server. Although not previously familiar with 

 the Yahgan language, he had the advantage of 

 native interpreters and the still greater advan- 

 tage of drawing on the intimate knowledge of the 

 elder Bridges and the other missionaries of 

 Ushuaia, to whom, as he states, he was indebted 

 for a "great part" of his material, both cultural 

 and linguistic. 



Capt. Bove made a second visit to Fuegia in 

 Feb .-Apr., 1884, but the papers listed above, with 

 the exception perhaps of/, are based on studies 

 made during the first trip. The human skulls 

 and skeletons brought back by Capt. Bove were 

 carefully studied by Drs. Mantegazza and Re- 

 galia and by Prof. Sergi; the artifacts by Drs. 

 Colini and Lovisato (qq. v.). It may be added 

 that Capt. Bove's vocabulary was apparently 

 intended as a corrective of Admiral Fitz-Roy's 

 Tekeenica list, as the former gives eciuivalents 

 only of English words foimd in the latter. 



Brassey, Annie Allnutt 



Around the world in the yacht 'Sun- 

 beam,' New York, 1879, 1880; published 

 in Boston, 1892, under title "A voyage 

 in the ' Sunbeam ' " ; Fr. tr. (according 

 to Dabbene), Tours, 1885. 



Contains a few imimportant notes (pp. 119-129 

 passim, 137-138, of 1879 ed.) by a good observer, 

 of three women (Alacaluf?) seen at Punta Arenas 

 and of Alacaluf met in canoes in English Reach 

 and near Eden Harbor in 1876. 



The Voyages and Travels of Lord Brassey 

 from 1862 to 1894, 2 vols., I>ondon-New York, 

 189.5, contains only one sentence about the same 

 English Reach group. 



Bridges, Despard 



See Bridges, Thomas, U 



Bridges, Lucas 



(a) Vocabularlo y fiases de la lengua 

 delosOnas. MS. 32 pp. (Reference 

 from Mitre, i. 164.) 



The most important as well as the most ex- 

 tensive or next most extensive Ona (Shilk'nam) 

 dictionary extant. It contains, according to the 

 Rev. Thomas Bridges' letter to General Mitre, 

 "algunos miles" words; it is in the Museo Mitre, 

 Buenos Aires. 



(6) Vocabulario Ona (Manekenkn). 

 MS. (Reference from Lehmann-Nit- 

 sche, d, p. 241.) 



This important vocabulary is our chief source 

 for the language of the nearly extinct Onas of the 

 extreme southeastern peninsula of Tierra del 

 Fuego Island. 97 words from the manuscript 

 in the possession of Dr. Samuel A. Lafone Que- 

 vedo have been published by Dr. Lehmann- 

 Nitsche, d, pp. 242-276 passim. 



Mr. Lucas Bridges, "a son of the Rev. Thomas 

 Bridges, was bom in Tierra del Fuego, and with 

 his brother WilUam has spent his whole life in 

 intimate and friendly familiarity with the Onas 

 and to a lesser extent with the Yahgans. He 

 speaks the Ona (Shilk'nam) tongue fluently, 

 and according to Dr. Lehmann-Nitsche {d, p. 

 233, note 1) also some Yahgan. He is a blood 

 member of the Shilk'nam tribe and has the 

 privilege of sitting in the council house (Fur- 

 long, k). 



The Bridges brothers are the best living first- 

 hand authorities on Ona culture. They have, so 

 far as I can discover, published no comprehensive 

 detailed accounts of Ona culture, but their inti- 

 mate knowledge has been drawn upon exten- 

 sively by Barclay, Cojazzi, Fr. Cook, Furlong, 

 Gallardo, Holmberg, O. Nordenskjold, Tonelli. 

 With the exception of the Salesians, they are 

 almost our sole original living sources for the 

 study of Ona social, moral, and religious culture. 

 Cf. also letter by Mr. Lucas Bridges quoted by 

 Mr. Young. 



Bridges, Thomas 



(a) Manners and customs of the Fire- 

 landers. (In A voice for South Amer- 

 ica, London, 1866, xiii, ISlff; Fr. tr. by 

 Hyades in Bull. Soc. d\mthr. de Paris, 

 1884, 3d ser. vn, 169-183.) 



An important accoimt of Yahgan social, 

 moral, and reUgious culture. Some Yahgan 

 words passim. This article was written before 

 Mr. Bridges took up his residence at Ushuaia. 

 It is based on data gathered from the Yahgans 

 who had been living at Keppel Island Mission in 

 the Falklands. In 1806 Mr. Bridges had had 

 eight years of contact with mission Yahgans in 

 addition to at least one short visit to Fuegia and 

 had been assiduously studying their language for 

 at least four years. 



