The domestication of the cormorant in China and Japan
By: by Berthold Laufer, Curator, Department of Anthropology. 4 plates in photogravure.
Series: Fieldiana -- v. 18, no. 3; Publication. Field Museum of Natural History -- 300. -- Anthropological series -- Vol. XVIII, No. 3; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909) -- 300.; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909) -- v. 18, no. 3
Publisher: Field Museum Press
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Cormorants; Fishing -- China; Fishing -- Japan
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chinese Terminology; title: Japanese Terminology; title: Historical Data; title: Geographical Distribution; title: Relation of Japanese to Chinese Cormorant Fishing; title: The Process of Domestication; title: Relationf of Cormorant to Otter Fishing and Egret Taming; title: Iconography; title: Folk-lore of the Cormorant.