Schwaner

Terry Schwaner, a herpetologist at North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega, Ga., who, like Austin, has studied life in tropical rainforests, said, Every new species you find is another little piece in the puzzle about how the whole group came about.

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Major Schwaner was given complete freedom of action.

Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

Schwaner says of the Borneans that if a man takes a second wife he pays to the first the _batu saki_, amounting to from sixty to one hundred guilders, and moreover he gives her presents, consisting of clothes, "in order to appease her completely," In reference to the tribes of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon, Gibbs says

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

Here it may be noted -- to indicate the wide prevalence of a custom which it would be unjust to animals to call bestial, because beasts never sink so low -- that Borneans, as Schwaner notes, marry off girls from three to five; that in Egypt child-wives of seven or eight can be seen; that Javanese girls may be married at seven; that North

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

This we see from what Schwaner says (I., 161) of the tribes in the Southeast:

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

I have heard reports of natives in the Schwaner mountains, who are said to have more hair on the body than Europeans, of a brownish colour, while that on the head is black.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

When Schwaner made his memorable exploration in 1847 he did not come up the Samba, but ascended the Katingan River, returning to Western Borneo over the mountains that bear his name.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

No European had been there since Schwaner, over thirty years previously, passed the river.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

Schwaner reports, [1268] from the Barito Valley, that children are often betrothed and married by the fathers when the latter are intoxicated.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875

Schwaner [1612] reports that the Dyaks withdrew "modestly" when he was about to eat.

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875