The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Nordenskiöld, Nils Erland Herbert

NORDENSKIÖLD, Nils Erland Herbert, Baron, Swedish ethnologist: b. Stockholm, 19 July 1877. He is the son of A. E. Nordenskiold (q.v.); after an education at Upsala, in 1906-08 he became connected with the Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. In 1913 he was made director of the ethnographic division of the Goteborg Museum. Between those years he traveled and made collections for the museums in Stockholm. He visited Patagonia in 1899; Argentina and Bolivia in 1901-02; Peru and Bolivia in 1904-05; Bolivia in 1908-09; and in the interior of South America in 1913. In 1912 he received the Loubat prize and the Wahlberg gold medal. In addition to numerous articles in scientific periodicals, he has published ‘Från högfjäll och urskogar’ (1902); ‘Indianlif i el gran chaco’ (1910); ‘Indianer och hoita’ (1911); and ‘Sydamerikas indianer’ (1912).