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- noun Plural form of
Abipón .
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The number scale of the Abipones, [107] one of the low tribes of the
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant
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That the number sense of the Abipones is but little, if at all, above that of the native Australian tribes, is shown by their expressing 3 by the combination 2 and 1.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant
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The Abipones, of Paraguay, called the Pleiades their "Grandfather" and
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Abipones, of which the other families are smaller.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various
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[107] Dobrizhoffer, _History of the Abipones_, Vol.II. p. 169.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant
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Equally among the Esquimaux of the regions of eternal ice, and the Abipones of Paraguay, dreams are reckoned the revelations of the
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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But the Abipones, in seeking for words with which to enable themselves to pass beyond the limit 3, invented the singular terms just given for 4 and 5.
The Number Concept Its Origin and Development Levi Leonard Conant
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A similar custom used to be constantly transforming the language of the Abipones of Paraguay, amongst whom, however, a word once abolished seems never to have been revived.
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A similar custom used to be constantly transforming the language of the Abipones of Paraguay, amongst whom, however, a word once abolished seems never to have been revived.
Chapter 22. Tabooed Words. § 3. Names of the Dead tabooed 1922
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Dobrizhoffer, who was for eighteen years a missionary in Paraguay, succeeded in forming several settlements of Christianized Abipones near the Parana.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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