Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee

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Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee (detail)
1883Animal carvings from mounds of the Mississippi Valley.
Second Ann. Rept. of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Inst., 1880-81 (Washington, Govt. Printing Office): 117-166. Illus.
—Available online at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18184. Supposed effigies of manatees from Indian mounds, 125-133, figs. 4-13. Henshaw debunks the identifications (going back to Squier & Davis, 1848) of these carved tobacco pipes as manatees, concluding that they more likely represent otters.