660 INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT UPON HUMAN INDUSTRIES. 



Table showing American environments in 



Area and physiograpby 



Chief minerals, plants, 

 and animals. 



Alimentation. 



Dress and adornment. 



16. Mato Grosso, Central 









South America. 









Hot, alluvial ; upper 



Few minerals ; bone and 



Maize, cassava, yams, 



Little; pretty feath- 



■waters in torrents. 



shell ; palm, hard- 



beans, turtle eggs, 



ers and teeth; 





wood, reed, gourd, 



fish, smoking, roast- 



masks, nose orna- 





cotton ; turtles, plum- 



ing, cooking pot. 



ments ; no bark 





age birds, monkeys. 





cloth. 



17. Argentina and Pata- 









gonia. 









Monotonous pampas. 



Pampas grasses; huan- 



Roots, some fish and 



Fur moccasins, huan- 



grassy plains to Weak 



aco; rhea. 



sea products ; flesh of 



aco robes, woven 



wastes south; treeless. 





ostrich and biianaco ; 

 open roasting with 

 grass fuel. 



blankets. 



IS. Fuegian. 









Rock islands ; precipi- 



Siliceous stone; rushes, 



Sea animals, verte- 



Scanty ; skin of seal, 



tous; cold and wet; 



beech, marine fauna, 



brate and inverte- 



etc. , for wind-break ; 



55° south. 



birds, dogs ; few mam- 



brate; fungi; no stor- 



paint and adorn- 





mals. 



age; open fire. 



ment. 



