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- ↑ "Biography: John Adrian Cowell 1934 - 2011". Adrian Cowell Films. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ↑ "South American Tropical Forest Material". Pitt Rivers Museum. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ↑ "Professor Peter Rivière". Oxford University School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnology. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2014.