The Number Concept eBook

Levi L. Conant
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 185 pages of information about The Number Concept.

The Number Concept eBook

Levi L. Conant
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 185 pages of information about The Number Concept.

[20] Brinton, D.G., Letter of Sept. 23, 1893.

[21] Ibid.  The reference for the Mbocobi, infra, is the same.  See also Brinton’s American Race, p. 361.

[22] Tylor, Primitive Culture, Vol.  I. p. 243.

[23] Op. cit., loc. cit.

[24] Hyades, Bulletin de la Societe d’Anthr. de Paris, 1887, p. 340.

[25] Wiener, C., Perou et Bolivie, p. 360.

[26] Marcoy, P., Travels in South America, Vol.  II p. 47.  According to the same authority, most of the tribes of the Upper Amazon cannot count above 2 or 3 except by reduplication.

[27] Op. cit., Vol.  II. p. 281.

[28] Glossaria Linguarum Brasiliensium.  Bororos, p. 15; Guachi, p. 133; Carajas, p. 265.

[29] Curr, E.M., The Australian Race, Vol.  I. p. 282.  The next eight lists are, in order, from I. p. 294, III. p. 424, III. p. 114, III. p. 124, II. p. 344, II. p. 308, I. p. 314, III. p. 314, respectively.

[30] Bonwick, J., The Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, p. 144.

[31] Latham, Comparative Philology, p. 336.

[32] The Australian Race, Vol.  I. p. 205.

[33] Mackenzie, A., “Native Australian Langs.,” Journ.  Anthr.  Inst., 1874, p. 263.

[34] Curr, The Australian Race, Vol.  II. p. 134.  The next four lists are from II. p. 4, I. p. 322, I. p. 346, and I. p. 398, respectively.

[35] Curr, op. cit., Vol.  III. p. 50.

[36] Op. cit., Vol.  III. p. 236.

[37] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft.  II. i. p. 23.

[38] Op. cit., II. i. p. 31.

[39] Bonwick, op. cit., p. 143.

[40] Curr, op. cit., Vol.  I. p. 31.

[41] Deschamps, L’Anthropologie, 1891, p. 318.

[42] Man, E.H. Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, p. 32.

[43] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, I. ii. p. 29.

[44] Oldfield, A., Tr.  Eth.  Soc.  Vol.  III. p. 291.

[45] Bancroft, H.H., Native Races, Vol.  I. p. 564.

[46] “Notes on Counting, etc., among the Eskimos of Point Barrow.” Am.  Anthrop., 1890, p. 38.

[47] Second Voyage, p. 556.

[48] Personal Narrative, Vol.  I. p. 311.

[49] Burton, B.F., Mem.  Anthr.  Soc. of London, Vol.  I. p. 314.

[50] Confessions.  In collected works, Edinburgh, 1890, Vol.  III. p. 337.

[51] Ellis, Robert, On Numerals as Signs of Primeval Unity.  See also Peruvia Scythia, by the same author.

[52] Stanley, H.M., In Darkest Africa, Vol.  II. p. 493.

[53] Stanley, H.M., Through the Dark Continent, Vol.  II. p. 486.

[54] Haumonte, Parisot, Adam, Grammaire et Vocabulaire de la Langue Taensa, p. 20.

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