PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY. RACIAL HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS.

NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES. I. THE NORTH ATLANTIC GROUP. 1. THE ESKIMOS.

SOUTH AMERICAN TRIBES. GENERAL REMARKS.

LINGUISTIC APPENDIX

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

FOOTNOTES

I. INDEX OF AUTHORS.

II. INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

Title: The American Race

A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America

Author: Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

Language: English

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The American Race:

A LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION AND ETHNOGRAPHIC
DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVE TRIBES OF
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

BY
DANIEL G. BRINTON, A.M., M.D.,

Professor of American ArchÆology and Linguistics in the University of Pennsylvania, and of General Ethnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; Vice-President of the CongrÈs International des AmÉricanistes; Medallist of the SociÉtÉ AmÉricaine de France; President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, and of the University ArchÆological Association of the University of Pennsylvania; Member of the Anthropological Societies of Berlin and Vienna, and of the Ethnographical Societies of Paris and Florence; of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Copenhagen, and of the Royal Society of History, Madrid; of the American Philosophical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, etc.

PHILADELPHIA
DAVID McKAY, Publisher
1022 Market Street.
1901

Copyright.
DANIEL G. BRINTON.
1891.

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