Xo. 9. — l)oy.'< of the Jiinrican Aborigines. 



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CONTENTS. 



Introduction . 



AcknoAvlcdgpments 



Origin of the Domestic Dog 



Origin of American Dogs 



Breeds of American Aboriginal Dog: 



Eskimo Dog 



Plains-Indian Dog . 



Sioux Dog 



Long-haired Pueblo Dog 



Larger or Common Indian Dog 



Klamath-Indian Dog 



Short-legged Indian Dog 



Clallam-Indian Dog 



Inca Dog 



Long-haired Inca Dog 



Patagonian Dog 



Mexican Hairless Dog 



Small Indian Dog or Techichi 



Hare-Indian Dog 



Fuegian Dog . 



Short-nosed Indian Dog (Pach 



Peruvian Pug-nosed Dog 

 Summary 

 Bibliography 

 Ex-planation of the Plates 



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IXTRODUCTIOX. 



When Columbus, in 1492, made his (lisco^■ery of land in the Western 

 Hemisphere, he found it already peopled by a race of men who are 

 considered by modern ethnologists to be of Asiatic origin, and probably 

 of an anticjuity dating back not many thousands of years. Yet these 

 aboriginal peoples were considerably diversified as to appearance, 

 language, and customs. In South America, the Incas had domesti- 

 cated animals, llamas and alpacas, whose wild progenitors are the last 



