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• Physical Description: 288 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
• Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, [1959]

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"Illustrated with 212 photographs and 14 maps."

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: The world of primitive man -- An Arctic hunting people : the Eskimos -- Sea-folk of the Subarctic : the Aleuts -- An American Indian tribe : the Navahos -- A Central American tribe : the Lacandones -- A Panama tribe : the San Blas -- A tribe of the Eastern Andes : the head-shrinking Jivaros -- A tribe of Central Brazil : the Camayurás -- A tribe of Arctic Eurasia : the reindeer-herding Lapps -- Slave traders of Africa : the Ovimbundu -- A people of the South African deserts : the Bushmen -- White aborigines in Eastern Asia : the hairy Ainus -- A people of the Eastern Himalayas : the Lolos -- A wandering tribe of the Australian desert : the Aruntas -- Stone-Age seamen of the South Seas : the Samoans -- Notes on the author and photographers.

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