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Genevra Sisson Snedden, 1873- Docas, the Indian Boy of Santa Clara Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1904 First printed in 1899. Snedden was a student at Stanford, studying education in the class of 1898. In the preface, she writes: What sort of people…

Three Makuna boys above a waterfall on the lower Apaporis River in Columbia. Photograph by botanist Richard Evans Schultes, 1952.

Curl-crested Aracaris. Henry Walter Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazons (London, 1863)

Various species of Euphonia. Jean-Théodore Descourtilz, Ornithologie brésilienne... (London, 1854-56)

More exotic creatures. Henry Walter Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazons (London, 1863)

Scary creatures. Henry Walter Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazons (London, 1863)

Another example of rodents. Herman Burmeister, Erläuterungen zur Fauna Brasiliens (Berlin, 1856)

Rodents. Hermann Burmeister, Erläuterungen zur Fauna Brasiliens (Berlin, 1856)

Setting up camp. Robert Schomburghk, Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (London, 1841)

Amerindians fishing with bows and arrows at the junction of two rivers. Robert Schomburgk, Twelve Views in the Interior of Guiana (London, 1841)