Elephants and ethnologists / by G. Elliot Smith; woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton.

  • Smith, Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937.
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1924
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Elephants and ethnologists / by G. Elliot Smith; woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

"One of [the] ... stelae [at Copan, Honduras] now distinguished by archæologists by the letter B, is the chief topic of discussion in this book." --p. 21.

Publication/Creation

London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.; New York : Dutton, 1924.

Physical description

viii, 135 pages, 51 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Contents

Bibliography note (p. 11-19) -- The nature of the problem -- Other representations of the elephant -- The makara -- The spiral ornament -- The date of the diffusion of culture to America -- The significance of Indo-China.

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