Handbook to the ethnographical collections (1910) (14803112633)

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
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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BRITISH MUSEUM ^j^ HANDBOOK TO THE ETHNOGRAPHICALCOLLECTIONS WITH 15 PLATES, 275 ILLUSTRATIONS AND 8 MAPS FKLNTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES 1910 Price Two Shillings \^AU Jtiyhls JicneinU) OXFORD PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY HORACE HAKT PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY PREFACE The present publication is called a handbook rather thana guide, as the continual increase, and consequent re-arrange-ment, of the collections renders allusion to particular casesimpossible. The great amount and variety of the availableinformation on the peoples of the whole uncivilized world,their beliefs, habits, and productions, have rendered concisetreatment a necessity; but it is hoped that even this shortabstract from an immense material will enable the visitor tograsp the scientific value of ethnographical oltjects, and toperceive their relation to the products of more advancedcivilizations exhibited in other parts of the Museum. Many of the older specimens in the gallery have a connectionwith British enterphandbooktoethnog00brit