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IN the present and succeeding volumes of his Comparative Ethnographical Studies, Baron Nordenskiöld is dealing with the results of his journey to Panama and Columbia in 1927. The investigations which he then carried out, as will have been apparent from preliminary and semi-popular accounts which have been published already, are likely to prove of singular interest to ethnography. This, the first, instalment deals with documents produced in part by a paramount chief of the Cuna Indians, in part by an educated Cuna Indian, who can both speak and write Spanish. The material consists for the most part of magical texts for the healing of disease, the majority in Cuna with Spanish translation, and a “Historia” in Spanish.
Comparative Ethnographical Studies.
By Erland Nordenskiöld. Vol. 7, Part 1: Picture-Writings and other Documents. By Néle, Paramount Chief of the Cuna Indians, and Ruben Pérez Kantule. Pp. iv + 94. (London: Oxford University Press, 1928.) 5s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 122, 238 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122238a0
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