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Lucayan artifacts from the Bahamas (1913)

Booy, Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de, 1882-1919 author · Lancaster, Pa The New era printing company · leaf 7

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ct was added to the Heye Museum by the gift of a duho, or wooden stool, found in a small, open cave at Spring point on Acklins island, covered by the debris of a large slab of limestone that had fallen from the roof of the cave. A negro hunter had taken shelter in this cave during a rainstorm, and… … Fig. 4. — Wooden duho from Acklins island. Dr Holmes gave it to the author, who, accompanied by Mr C. V. Spicer, a member of the expedition, visited the cave in which the specimen had been found, but they were not successful in finding any more material. The duho (fig. 4) stands 534 inches (13.3…

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