Erland Nordenskiöld and Rubén Pérez Kantule

Erland Nordenskiöld was born on 19 July 1877 in Stockholm, the son of the explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. Trained at Uppsala, he led expeditions in Patagonia, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru, and from 1913 headed the ethnographic department of the Gothenburg museum. In 1927, he stayed among the Guna of San Blas and worked there with Rubén Pérez Kantule, secretary to the great chief Nele Kantule, who afterwards brought back to Sweden a large part of the Guna manuscripts. He died on 5 July 1932, before the work was published.

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• NarrativeAn Historical and Ethnological Survey of the Cuna IndiansErland Nordenskiöld and Rubén Pérez Kantule · 1938Literature