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It was inconceivable that America should produce an autocthonous art.
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We may, however, venture the assertion that the Eskimo is of autocthonic origin in Asia, but is not autocthonous in America.
The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871
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