The Handbook of South American Indians is a monographic series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in ethnographic studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution between 1940 and 1947.
[1] In 1932, Baron Erland Nordenskiöld agreed to edit the series for the National Research Council Division of Anthropology and Psychology; however, he died that year.
Ultimately, over a hundred scholars from Latin America, the United States, and Europe contributed and provided advice for the series.
(1948), The Tropical Forest Tribes, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, p. 986 Steward, Julian H., ed.
(1949), The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, p. 818 Steward, Julian H, ed.