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Nordenskjold, Nils Otto Gustaf— Contd. 



Dr. Nordenskjold's conclusion that since the 

 recession of the glaciers in the Fuegian archi- 

 pelago the land has risen some 60 meters has a 

 bearing on the question of the length of occu- 

 pancy of the archipelago hy man. Cf. Dr. 

 Lovisato's study of the Elizabeth Island shell- 

 heaps. 



(j) Die Polarwelt und ihre Nach- 

 barliinder, Leipzig-Berlin, 1909. 



Contains (pp. 120-129 passim) a few unim- 

 portant notes chiefly on the Onas and Yahgans. 



Dr. Nordenskjold's anthropological studies 

 were made chiefly upon the Onas, whom he had 

 fairly good opportimities for observing during 

 his trip down the eastern fringe of Tierra del 

 Fuego Island in 189.5-9(i. He was also in com- 

 mimication with the Salesians at Rio Grande, 

 with the Bridges family, and with the civil 

 authorities, especially Seiior Ramon Cortes, 

 chief of police for the island. His most impor- 

 tant contribution is the Ona vocabulary. 



Nyel, J. A. X. 



Lettre du Pere Nyel, Missionnaire de 

 la Compagnie de Jesus, au R. P. de la 

 Chaize de la meme Compagnie, Confes- 

 seur du Roy. (In Lettres edif. et cur., 

 receuil vn, pp. 29-60; 1838-1843 ed., 

 vol. 11, pp. 79-83; Span, tr., vol. iii; 

 Engl, tr., vol. ii; de Brosses, vol. n, 

 436-441.) 



Contains (pp. 36, 42-44) a short account of the 

 Fuegians, chiefly from the Nodals. 



Ochsenlus, Carl Christian 



Chile: Land und Leute, Leipzig- 

 Prag, 1884. 



Contains (pp. 111-112, 139-145) imimportant 

 notes on the Fuegians. 



O'Halloran, T. P. 



A bibliography of South America, 

 London-Buenos Ayres, 1912. 



Confined to books and articles in the English 

 language; popular, not scientific; bibliographical 

 data insufficient and in places inaccurate; of some 

 value, however, inasmuch as it is a fairly exten- 

 sive list. 

 Olaverria, Miguel de 



Informe de Don Miguel de Olaverria 

 Bobre el reyno de Chile, bus Indios y sus 

 guerras, 1594 [or 1597-98]. (In Gay, 

 Documentos, ii, 13-54.) 



Contains (p. 18) very brief notes on the Chonos. 

 Olivares, Miguel de 



Breve noticia de la provincia de la 

 Compania de Jesus de Chile, desde que 

 los relijiosos de ella entraron en este 

 reino, que fue el ano 1593, hasta los 

 anoB presentes, [1736]. (Ed. with in- 



Olivares, Miguel de — Continued 

 trod, by Diego Barros Arana, in Col. 

 hist. Chile, Santiago, 1874, vol. vn, 

 1901, vol. XXVI.) 



Chapter 10 contains a good deal of valuable in- 

 formation on the relations of the missionaries, the 

 colonists, and the Chilotan Indians with the 

 Chonos, together with some notes on Chonoan 

 culture. See especially vn, 370-373 on first mis- 

 sions and culture, and vii, 394-395 on the settle- 

 ment of the Chonos on Huar. Father Olivares 

 gathered his historical data in the course of his 

 missionary labors in the Chilotan district, and 

 had had some personal contact with the Chonos 

 (vn, 372). 



Omalius d'Halloy, Jean Baptiste Julien d' 

 Des races humaines, ou elements 

 d'ethnographie, Paris, 1845. 



On pp. 1(>2-1C3 the author classes the Fuegians 

 (Pocherais) in the Arancanian family. 



Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d' 



(rt) Voyage pittoresque dans les deux 

 Ameriques, Paris, 1836; ditto, 1841; 

 Ital. tr., 2 vols., Venice, 1852-1854.' 



Contains (orig., pp. 283-284; tr. , I, 557-558) 

 short, unimportant accoimt of the Fuegians, 

 based chiefly on IJougainville, Jas. Cook, Banks. 



(b) L'homme americain(del' Amerique 

 Meridional), considere sous ses rap- 

 ports physiologiques et moraux, vol. 

 IV, part 1, of the Voyage dans I'Ame- 

 rique Meridionale etc., Paris, 1839; 2 

 vols., ibid., 1839. 



Contains (see especially pp. 17.5-177, lS.5-187) 

 accounts of the Chonos and Fuegians, based on 

 Bougainville, Wcddell, the older writers in de 

 Brosses, etc. The accoimts would need consider- 

 able revision to be of value to-day. The linguis- 

 tic classification (p. 187) of the Fuegians with the 

 Araucanians is based merely on the occurrence of 

 the syllable che in Beauchesne-Gouin's division 

 (gotten, apparently, from La Guilbaudiere or his 

 Description) of the Fuegians into the "Lague- 

 diche" and "Haveguediche" (de Brosses, r, 120). 

 Even granting the very doubtful point that the 

 che was meant to be pronounced as a separate 

 syllable, Villefort's journal of Beauchesne- 

 Gouin's voyage being written in French, the 

 classification would rest on a quite insufficient 

 basis; yet it was followe<l by many later writers 

 on Fuegian anthropology (e. g., Figuier, Peschel, 

 Prichard). Average stature of Fuegians (p. 186) 

 based on estimates by Wall is, G. Forster, and 

 Weddell. 



Osborn, Chase Salmon 



The Andean land (South America), 

 2 vols., Chicago, 1909. 



Contains (i, 68, 159-161) some notes on the 

 Fuegians, based partly on personal observation; 

 not important. 



