File:Handbook to the ethnographical collections (1910) (14596915377).jpg

Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
Subjects:
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
They are ofmedium height and fairly goodphj^sique, norare their intellectualpowers quite so low as was atone time supposed. In spite of the coldness of theclimate the Fuegians wear verylittle clothing, only a loin-cloth,with a loose skin to throw overthe shouldeiS. Necklaces of bone,dentalium and other shells areworn, and the head is adornedwith feather crowns. Theirhouses are made of boughs orskins laid over a pole framework,but a great part of their time ispassed in their narrow boats orcanoes, which are made either ofbirch-bark or wood, and alwayshave a clay fire-place in the centre.In these canoes they hunt sea-lions and large fish, formerlyrelying entirely on spears andharpoons headed with ))one, butnow using instruments of iron.Besides spears and harpoons, theyhave a sling for killing birds, andbows and arrows. The bow isplain, with a string of sinew;the arrows are commonly headedwith glass, like the spear-headsof the Australians, the woik beingdone by pressure with a bone E. U
Text Appearing After Image:
a Fir;. 272.-Objects from SouthAmerica. a. Bolus with stonoweiglits. Aryentiiio. h. Woodenchil). Britisli Guiaiia. c. Stone-lie;nlcd chih. Avinara. Ptru. 290 AMERICA tool aiul nut by percussion : but tiint is also used tur tlie points otweapons. The principal utensils are baskets, and water vesselsmade of Ijark. The Fuegians live principally on molluscs and tish ; the formerare eaten raw, the latter usually fried or stewed. When meat canbe procured it is eaten raw. Fire is obtained by striking- togethertwo pieces of pyrites (fig. 7 a).

Note About Images