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Sokolowsky, Alexander 



Menschenkunde, 3d ed., Stuttgart- 

 Berlin-Leipzig, [1901]. 



Contains (pp. 129-133 and passim) a fairly 

 good account of the Fuegian natives. A clearer 

 distinction between the three tribes would have 

 Been desirable. 



Somlo, Felix 



Der Giiterverkehr in der Urgesell- 

 soh;ift, Briixelles-Leipzig, 1909. 



Contains (pp. 83-90) an excellent and fairly 

 exhaustive treatment of tliis phase of Yahgan and 

 Alacalufan culture, based on Th. Bridges, 

 Martial, Hyades, and others. 



South American missionary magazine, 

 London, 1854- : Vols, i-ix, 1854-1862, 

 published under title "Tlie voice of 

 pity for South America;" vols, x- 

 xiii, 1863-1866, under title "A voice 

 for South America;" vols. xrv-XLix, 

 1867-1915, as above. 

 The official organ of the South American Mis 

 sionary Society of I-ondon. The chief con- 

 tributors on Fuegia have been Messrs. Th. 

 Bridges, John Lawrence, E. C. Aspinall, John 

 Williams, all missionaries with extensive expe- 

 rience among the Yahgans. Dr. Hyades calls 

 (?, p. 6) this periodical "une mine in(Spui- 

 sable de renseignements sur les moeurs et les 

 usages des Fui^giens." Nearly every number 

 contains some communication from Fuegia. 

 The cultural data scattered through the 49 vol- 

 umes if culled and coordinated would make a 

 book of first importance. The greater part of 

 this material is, however, accessible in the Rev. 

 Mr. Bridges' better known papers and in Dr 

 Hyades' publications, especially q. 



Complete files of tliis magazine are rare. The 

 British Museum has the whole series; complete or 

 nearly complete sets are owiied by the La Plata 

 Museum and by Prof. Furlong, of Boston. Some 

 of the more recent volumes are available at the 

 office of the American Board of Commissioners 

 for Foreign Missions, Boston, at the Hammond 

 Library, Chicago Theological Seminary (xxx to 

 date), at the Northwestern University, Evans- 

 ton, 111. (XXXV to date), and at the Presbyterian 

 Foreign Missions I^ibrary, New York City (xlv 

 to date). The Day Missions Library at Yale 

 possesses the following volumes: vn-xxn, 1873- 

 1888, XL-, 1906 to date, and some stray numbers. 

 The volumes in the Day Library are the only 

 ones I have had an opportunity to consult. 

 These I found to contain a great deal of material 

 bearing on Yahgan moral and mental culture 

 and a good amount of data on material culture. 

 Recent numbers contain many good photo- 

 graphs. 



Spears, John Randolph 



The gold diggings of Cape Horn: A 

 study of life in Tierra del Fuego and 

 Patagonia, New York-London, 1895. 



Contains on pp. 47-78 a lengthy account of the 

 Yahgans, on pp. 127-134 a shorter one of the Onas, 

 on pp. 134-136 a few data on the Alacaluf, and 

 on pp. 79-127 passim some stray notes. While 

 these descriptions give practically no new infor- 

 mation, they are fairly reliable and accurate. 

 They are, it seems, based chiefly if not entirely 

 on good written sources, although the writer, a 

 newspaper man, made a visit to Fuegia. 



Spegazzini, Carlos 



(a) Costumbres de los habitantes de 

 la Tierra de Fuego. (Reprint from 

 Anales Soc. dent, argent., Buenos Aires, 

 1882, XIV, 25 pp.) 



An important paper on the culture of the Yah- 

 gans and Onas, including also 6 Ona words, 1 at 

 least Manekenkn, pp. 17-18, 20, and 2 Yahgan 

 and 2 Alacaluf words, pp. 5-7, and Yahgan stat- 

 ure measurements , p. 4. The Onas described by 

 Dr. Spegazzmi called themselves Mac-ck (p. 16) 

 and some of them at least were probably Mane- 

 kenkn. The data on the Yahgans do not differ 

 materially from those given by Capt. Bove and 

 Dr. Lovisato, except perhaps for a somewhat 

 more favorable estimate of moral culture. 



(6) Costumbres de los Patagones. 

 (Ibid., 1884, XVII, 221-240.) 



Contains passim a few data on Onan culture. 

 On pp. 226 and 239 the author states liis belief 

 in the kinsliip of the Onas with the Tehuelches. 



(c) Ai^untes filologicos sobre las len- 

 guas de la Tierra del Fuego. (Ibid., 

 1884, XVIII, 131-144.) 



An important early contribution on Yahgan 

 grammar, especially on the noim and adjective. 

 The paper includes many Yahgan words passim. 

 The article contains no Onan or Alacalufan gram- 

 matical data. The author states, on p. 132, that 

 the three Fuegian languages differ absolutely in 

 grammatical construction and that the Yahgan 

 and Alcalufan show certain points of contact 

 with the Araucanian. As far as the Alacalufan 

 is concerned, both of these statements would 

 seem to need confirmation. Except for a sen- 

 tence or two in Vargas Ponce (6, p. 27) there is 

 no published material on Alacalufan grammar. 

 Dr. Spegazzini spent only a few days with the 

 Alacaluf, and the English missionaries at the 

 time did not speak the Alacalufan language 

 (Hyades, q, p. 13) or at least had made very 

 little progress in it. 



{d) Plantae per Fuegiam a Carolo 

 Spegazzini anno 1882 collectae. (In 



