. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. ARROWHEADS AND KNIFE, FOUND NEAR COLOHUAPI, CHUBUT. MR. E. M. SPROT) (NOW IN COLLECTION OF its fatal pleasures, he has no reason for forbidding himself an indulgence his animal nature craves. Since the day on which the Spanish adventurers first sighted the Patagonian coast, perhaps the one "event" in the history of the Indians may truly be said to be the introduction of horses into their land. Otherwise they seem to have altered little in their way of life. Magellan says they came down to the ship clad and shod in guanaco-skins ; the
. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. ARROWHEADS AND KNIFE, FOUND NEAR COLOHUAPI, CHUBUT. MR. E. M. SPROT) (NOW IN COLLECTION OF its fatal pleasures, he has no reason for forbidding himself an indulgence his animal nature craves. Since the day on which the Spanish adventurers first sighted the Patagonian coast, perhaps the one "event" in the history of the Indians may truly be said to be the introduction of horses into their land. Otherwise they seem to have altered little in their way of life. Magellan says they came down to the ship clad and shod in guanaco-skins ; they are clad and shod in guanaco-skins to-day. Their tools and knives were sharp-edged flints ; I have seen the Indians skin their quarry with precisely the same weapons. Bows and arrows were indeed in use among the tribes when the Spaniards visited the coast; these have now been superseded by the boleadores, an innovation which in its present form came into fashion after the Indians began to know the value of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh, 1876-1922; Moreno, Francisco Pascasio, 1852-1919; Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944; Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929; Britten, James, 1846-1924; Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938; Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931, illus; Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935. fmo sgn; Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo; Huntington Free Library. fmo. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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