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Carl Lumholtz
Born
Carl Sofus Lumholtz

(1851-04-23)23 April 1851
Fåberg, Norway
Died5 May 1922(1922-05-05) (aged 71)
Saranac Lake, New York
NationalityNorwegian
CitizenshipNorwegian
Alma materUniversity of Oslo
Scientific career
FieldsEthnography
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Carl Sofus Lumholtz (23 April 1851 – 5 May 1922) was a Norwegian explorer and ethnographer, best known for his meticulous field research and ethnographic publications on indigenous cultures of Australia and Mexico.

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Carl Sofus Lumholtz

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Carl Sofus Lumholtz (23 April 1851 – 5 May 1922) was a Norwegian explorer and ethnographer, best known for his meticulous field research and ethnographic...

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Lumholtz

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Lumholtz may refer to: Lumholtz, Queensland, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Australia Carl Sofus Lumholtz (1851–1922), Norwegian explorer and...

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Sophus

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and novelist Carl Sofus Lumholtz (1851–1922), Norwegian explorer and ethnographer Sofus Arctander (1845–1924), Norwegian politician Sofus Berger (born...

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Carl Vilhelm Hartman

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anthropologist. Trained as a botanist, Hartman joined Norwegian ethnographer Carl Sofus Lumholtz on a three-year expedition to the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico...

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Pinus lumholtzii

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endemic to northwestern Mexico. It is named after Norwegian explorer Carl Sofus Lumholtz. This pine occurs only in the states of Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas...

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Peyote

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Norwegian ethnographer Carl Sofus Lumholtz studied and wrote about the use of peyote among the Indians of Mexico. Lumholtz also reported that, lacking...

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Cannibalism in Oceania

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of the border in Central Australia." The Norwegian ethnographer Carl Sofus Lumholtz confirms that infants were commonly killed and eaten especially in...

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Opata language

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the United States. It was believed to be dead already in 1930, and Carl Sofus Lumholtz reported the Opata to have become "Mexicanized" and lost their language...

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Child cannibalism

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of the border in Central Australia." The Norwegian ethnographer Carl Sofus Lumholtz confirms that infants were commonly killed and eaten especially in...

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Girringun National Park

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Lumholtz National Park, after scientist Carl Sofus Lumholtz, when it was created in 1994. The Blencoe Falls Section was gazetted as part of Lumholtz National...

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Argyrochosma lumholtzii

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leaf. First described as a species in 1939, honoring the explorer Carl Sofus Lumholtz, it was transferred to the new genus Argyrochosma (the "false cloak...

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Cora people

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Naáyarite (singular: Naáyari) A group of Cora people photographed by Carl Sofus Lumholtz in 1896. Total population Mexico: 24,390 (Mexican census 2000) (figure...

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Frederick Starr

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incidents occurred while traveling in Mexico. Much like ethnologist Carl Sofus Lumholtz, Starr traveled to the Purépecha community of Cheran, Michoacan located...

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European land exploration of Australia

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Logan Jack Alexander William Jardine Frank Jardine Edmund Lockyer Carl Sofus Lumholtz John MacGillivray Michael Terry Frederick Walker Lawrence Wells...

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Plazuelas

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La Gran Chichimeca was done by Norwegian naturalist and explorer Carl Sofus Lumholtz in 1890 when he traveled on mule through northwestern Mexico, meeting...

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Duaringa

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renowned naturalists and zoologists including Albert Stewart Meek, and Carl Sofus Lumholtz. Charles and Harry Barnard both served as chairmen on the Duaringa...

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Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition

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discuss artifacts associated with the shaft tomb tradition was Carl Sofus Lumholtz's 1902 work, Unknown Mexico. Along with illustrations of several of...

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1851 in Norway

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1880) Herman Jeremiassen, ship-owner and politician (died 1943) Carl Sofus Lumholtz, discoverer and ethnographer (died 1922) Olaj Olsen, jurist and politician...

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Karl Haanshus

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processed the material from Ørjan Olsen's expedition to Siberia, Carl Sofus Lumholtz's trip to Borneo, and Alf Wollebæk's expedition to the Galápagos Islands...

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1922 in Norway

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Welhaven, architect, palace manager, and sportsman (born 1850) 5 May – Carl Sofus Lumholtz, discoverer and ethnographer (born 1851) 13 June – Fredrik Stang...

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