Baron Nils Erland Herbert Nordenskiöld (19 July 1877 – 5 July 1932) was a Swedish archeologist and anthropologist. Nordenskiöld's research focused on the ethnography and prehistory of

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Biography

He was born in

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, the son of N. A. E. Nordenskiöld. He was educated at

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, was connected with the Museum of Natural History at

(1906–08), and became director of the ethnographic division of the Göteborg Museum (1913). He made journeys of discovery in

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(1899), in

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and

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(1901–02), in

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and Bolivia (1904–05), in Bolivia (1908–09), and in 1913 in the interior of South America. From these journeys he brought home large collections to Gothenburg where he was head of the Ethnographical Museum. In 1912 he was awarded the Loubat Prize of the

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and the Wahlberg gold medal of the

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. He was elected a foreign member of the

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in 1932.

Works

Besides numerous articles in scientific periodicals Nordenskiöld published: * ''Från högfjäll och urskogar'' (1902)
''Indianlif i El Gran Chaco''
(Stockholm: Bonniers, 1910;

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translation
''Indianerleben el Gran Chaco (Süd Amerika)''
(Leipzig: Bonniers, 1912) * ''Indianer och hvita'' (1911) * ''Sydamerikas indianer'' (1912)
‘The Guarani Invasion of the Inca Empire in the Sixteenth Century’
in ''The Geographical Review'', vol. 4, no. 2, August (New York: American Geographical Society, 1917)
''The Copper and Bronze Ages in South America''
(Göteborg: Elanders, 1921) * ''Modifications in Indian Culture through Inventions and Loans'' (Göteborg: Elanders, 1930) * ''Origin of the Indian Civilisations in South America'' (Göteborg: Elanders, 1931)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nordenskiold, Erland 1877 births 1932 deaths Swedish ethnologists Finnish ethnologists Swedish anthropologists Finnish anthropologists Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences