The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Volumen17Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman Jameson & Morse, 1895 |
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... INDIANS ( Illustrated ) Stephen D. Peet , . . 19 CORRESPONDENCE.- • Buffalo Rock , by N. F. Douglass .. Letter from Polynesia , by A. Hamilton ; “ About the Bogus Stat- uette , " by F. W. Putnam , D. G. Brinton and W. H. Holmes ; A Huge ...
... INDIANS ( Illustrated ) Stephen D. Peet , . . 19 CORRESPONDENCE.- • Buffalo Rock , by N. F. Douglass .. Letter from Polynesia , by A. Hamilton ; “ About the Bogus Stat- uette , " by F. W. Putnam , D. G. Brinton and W. H. Holmes ; A Huge ...
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... INDIAN NATIONS OF THE GREAT LAKES . LITERARY NOTES.- W. M. Beauchamp , The American Oriental Society ; The Pleiades ; The ... INDIANS . PALESTINE EXPLORATION . 252 Dr. Cyrus Thomas , • 44 T. F. Wright , PALEOLITHIC DISCOVERIES IN FOREIGN ...
... INDIAN NATIONS OF THE GREAT LAKES . LITERARY NOTES.- W. M. Beauchamp , The American Oriental Society ; The Pleiades ; The ... INDIANS . PALESTINE EXPLORATION . 252 Dr. Cyrus Thomas , • 44 T. F. Wright , PALEOLITHIC DISCOVERIES IN FOREIGN ...
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... INDIANS . 7. O. Dorsey and S. D. Peet , THE HIDERY STORY OF CREATION . 56 James Deans , · THE STORY OF CREATION ... INDIAN as a Citizen . A. Downing , . Philipp F. F. Valentini , 326 James Wickersham , THE CHOCTAW ROBIN GOOD FELLOW ...
... INDIANS . 7. O. Dorsey and S. D. Peet , THE HIDERY STORY OF CREATION . 56 James Deans , · THE STORY OF CREATION ... INDIAN as a Citizen . A. Downing , . Philipp F. F. Valentini , 326 James Wickersham , THE CHOCTAW ROBIN GOOD FELLOW ...
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... Indians that some of these , more likely the latter , were used for decorating their houses . That the native copper was more flexible , softer and paler than the European , Lane was aware of from personal observation , which fact later ...
... Indians that some of these , more likely the latter , were used for decorating their houses . That the native copper was more flexible , softer and paler than the European , Lane was aware of from personal observation , which fact later ...
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... Indians ( Illinois ) , for a large and valuable consider- ation , agreed to sell to Murray and his associates two tracts of land which are thus bounded : The first begins on the east side of the Mississippi River at the mouth of Heron ...
... Indians ( Illinois ) , for a large and valuable consider- ation , agreed to sell to Murray and his associates two tracts of land which are thus bounded : The first begins on the east side of the Mississippi River at the mouth of Heron ...
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Página 291 - Not long after, early in a morning a great fire was made in a long house, and a mat spread on the one side, as on the other; on the one they caused him to sit, and all the guard went out of the house, and presently came skipping in a great grim fellow: all painted over with coal, mingled with oil, and many snakes
Página 333 - No Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Página 150 - Once more are the gods in counsel; in the darkness, in the night of a desolated universe do they commune together: of what shall we make man? And the Creator and Former made four perfect men ; and wholly of yellow and white maize was their flesh composed. These were the...
Página 150 - And they speak; they consulted together and meditated; they mingled their words and their opinion. And the creation was verily after this wise: Earth, they said, and on the instant it was formed; like a cloud or a fog was its beginning. Then the mountains rose over the water like great lobsters; in an instant the mountains and the plains were visible, and the cypress and the pine appeared. Then was the Gucumatz filled with joy, crying out: Blessed be thy coming O Heart of Heaven, Hurakan, Thunderbolt....
Página 201 - the soul of the world," and supposed to have been its creator. He was depicted as a handsome man, endowed with perpetual youth. A year before the intended sacrifice, a captive, distinguished for his personal beauty, and without a blemish on his body, was selected to represent this deity. Certain tutors took charge of him, and instructed him how to perform his new part with becoming grace and dignity. He was arrayed in a splendid dress, regaled with incense and with a profusion of sweet-scented flowers,...
Página 292 - Till night, neither he nor they did either eate or drinke, and then they feasted merrily, with the best provisions they could make. Three dayes they used this Ceremony ; the meaning whereof they told him, was to know if he intended them well or no. The circle of meale signified their Country, the circles of corne the bounds of the Sea ; and the stickes his Country. They imagined the world to be flat and round, like a trencher, and they in the middest.
Página 292 - ... priest and three on the other. Then all with their rattles began a song, which ended, the chief priest laid down five wheat corns.
Página 237 - ... the earth might not touch the body. In the case of this race the bodies were buried in a crouching position, with the head to the south and the face to the west. There were no traces that the bodies were embalmed. The tomb was an open trench with wooden beams, with the earth thrown in over the body, and corresponded in many respects with the graves found by Schliemann in Мусепге.
Página 311 - The Cherokees in their dispositions and manners are grave and steady; dignified and circumspect in their deportment; rather slow and reserved in conversation; yet frank, cheerful, and humane; tenacious of the liberties and natural rights of man; secret, deliberate and determined in their councils; honest, just and liberal, and ready always to sacrifice every pleasure and gratification, even their blood, and life itself, to defend their territory and maintain their rights.
Página 286 - Before entering it, we saw about twenty small boats full of people, who came about our ship, uttering many cries of astonishment, but they would not approach nearer than within fifty paces; stopping, they looked at the structure of our ship, our persons and dress, afterwards they all raised a loud shout together, signifying that they were pleased.