Bibliography and Index of the Sirenia and Desmostylia 
Bibliography Record
| Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee | |||
| 1883 | Animal 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. | ||
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3 related index terms
Archeological Sites, Sirenia at
| * | 1883 | Henshaw, H.W. (supposed manatee effigies among stone tobacco pipes; Mississippi Valley) |
Manatus americanus (Link, 1795) Illiger, 1815
| 1883 | Henshaw, H.W. (supposed manatee effigies among stone tobacco pipes; Mississippi Valley) |
Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
| * | 1883 | Henshaw, H.W. (supposed manatee effigies among stone tobacco pipes; Mississippi Valley) |