The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Volumen17Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman Jameson & Morse, 1895 |
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... Valley , the impression made by the textile fabrics showing the same stitches as the former . " Therefore , while the Chaouanons were of the same linguistic family and had some of the same ethnic characteristics as the eastern ...
... Valley , the impression made by the textile fabrics showing the same stitches as the former . " Therefore , while the Chaouanons were of the same linguistic family and had some of the same ethnic characteristics as the eastern ...
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... valleys of the streams . 2. We would here refer to the fact that according to all explorers the construction of these effigies is exactly the same . The quadrupeds have projections on one side which represent the legs , and occasionally ...
... valleys of the streams . 2. We would here refer to the fact that according to all explorers the construction of these effigies is exactly the same . The quadrupeds have projections on one side which represent the legs , and occasionally ...
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... are detached from the tribal area , just as are the great serpent and alligator mound in Ohio and the serpent mound near Quincy , Ill . looking river valleys . They show in their location , 24 THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN .
... are detached from the tribal area , just as are the great serpent and alligator mound in Ohio and the serpent mound near Quincy , Ill . looking river valleys . They show in their location , 24 THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN .
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Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman. looking river valleys . They show in their location , as well as in their shapes and manner of construction , that they were built by the same or a similar people as the effigies of Wisconsin were ...
Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman. looking river valleys . They show in their location , as well as in their shapes and manner of construction , that they were built by the same or a similar people as the effigies of Wisconsin were ...
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... Valley and down that river to the Valley of the Mississippi River . * See history of Oshkosh . Also history of Winnebago Co. We may conclude from this that the Winnebagoes were not THE EFFIGY - BUILDERS AND THE INDIANS . 27.
... Valley and down that river to the Valley of the Mississippi River . * See history of Oshkosh . Also history of Winnebago Co. We may conclude from this that the Winnebagoes were not THE EFFIGY - BUILDERS AND THE INDIANS . 27.
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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.