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Word: dolmatoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Marta Mountains, whose 19,000-ft. snow peaks are a breathtaking sight to tourists on Caribbean cruise ships, an Austrian-born anthropologist brought news of an Indian tribe so cut off that until recently its 2,000 members thought Spanish kings still ruled Colombia. The scientist is Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 40, working with a grant from New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Indians are the Kogis, perhaps the most remarkable community of aborigines still flourishing on the American continents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Man's World | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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