Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Bind 30U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 |
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... islands at the Alaska - Yukon - Pacific Exposi- tion at Seattle . Before leaving for South America in October he designed a number of lay - figure family groups , which were elaborated by the sculptor during the winter months ; and on ...
... islands at the Alaska - Yukon - Pacific Exposi- tion at Seattle . Before leaving for South America in October he designed a number of lay - figure family groups , which were elaborated by the sculptor during the winter months ; and on ...
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... Islands . This catalogue , in the preparation of which Prof. H. M. Ballou , of Boston , Massa- chusetts , is joint author , has grown to an extent not antici- pated at the outset . During the last and next preceding fiscal years ...
... Islands . This catalogue , in the preparation of which Prof. H. M. Ballou , of Boston , Massa- chusetts , is joint author , has grown to an extent not antici- pated at the outset . During the last and next preceding fiscal years ...
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... Island Carib . Though presented with offer- ings , these spirits could be invoked only by the medicine - man , and being more or less intimately associated with human bones , were often called into requisition for purposes of witchcraft ...
... Island Carib . Though presented with offer- ings , these spirits could be invoked only by the medicine - man , and being more or less intimately associated with human bones , were often called into requisition for purposes of witchcraft ...
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... Islands 1666. [ For the original work see ROCHEFORT . ] DEPONS , F. Travels in parts of South America , during the years 1801 , 1802 , 1803 , 1804. London , 1806. ( In Phillips , Coll . of Modern Voyages , vol . iv , London , 1806 ...
... Islands 1666. [ For the original work see ROCHEFORT . ] DEPONS , F. Travels in parts of South America , during the years 1801 , 1802 , 1803 , 1804. London , 1806. ( In Phillips , Coll . of Modern Voyages , vol . iv , London , 1806 ...
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... island . But how to escape ? Round and round he wandered , until he finally found a path ; no ordinary path , but a Yawahu's path leading to the Spirit's house . Arrived at the house , the Yawahu caught him , and took all his bones out ...
... island . But how to escape ? Round and round he wandered , until he finally found a path ; no ordinary path , but a Yawahu's path leading to the Spirit's house . Arrived at the house , the Yawahu caught him , and took all his bones out ...
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23d Ann Adaba Akawai Amazon American Ethnology animal Arawaks arrow asked babracote banab believe bird body British Guiana brother Bureau of American Bush Spirits bush-hog calabash called cassava Cayenne ceremony child corial corn couvade Cyrus Thomas dead drink Ethn Ethnology Familiar Spirits father fire fish fraternity friends girl Guiana Haburi hammock hand heard Hebu hunting husband Indians Island Caribs J. W. Powell Jesse Walter Fewkes Kanaima killed Komatari Konehu Kororomanna latter leaf leaves Makusis meat medicine medicine-man morning Moruca mother never night old woman Orinoco piai plant rain priest rattle returned Rio Negro River root rubbed Schomburgk Sect seeds sick sister snake soon stone Surinam tapir theurgist Thistle family Tiger tobacco told took tree tribes Turtle Uaupes Warraus Water Spirit Wau-uta wife women Yawahu young Yucca baccata Yurokon Zuñi
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Side 91 - ... hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger ; sa'vor y, sweet smelling ; car'cass, a body ; weap'on, something with which one fights ; bide, to dwell.
Side 47 - Bacon ; and some of them eat plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy ; for they turned natural fools upon it for several days : one would blow up a feather in the air ; another would dart straws at it with much fury ; and another stark naked was sitting up in a corner, like a monkey...
Side 355 - Their audacity in these predatory excursions is astonishing. If a party can muster eight or ten stand of fire-arms, it will fight its way through all the mountain tribes, though at open war with them, and by the rapidity of their marches, and nightly enterprises, which they call Kanaima, they conceal the weakness of their numbers, and carry terror before them.
Side 391 - Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1880-'81 by JW Powell director [Vignette] Washington Government Printing Office 1883 [1884:] Roy.
Side 17 - ... beginning of the year, owing to the fact that the burden of the administrative work of the bureau devolved upon Mr. Hodge when the chief was called to South America and later to the Seattle Exposition, as previously mentioned. In the handbook work Mr. Hodge had the clerical assistance of Mrs. Frances Nichols. It Is now expected that Part 2 will be ready for distribution in the near future. Mr. Hodge represented the bureau on the Smithsonian advisory committee on printing and publication, and...
Side 403 - Swanton 1911 8°. vn, 387 p., 32 pi. (including 1 map) , 2 fig. (44) . Indian languages of Mexico and Central America, and their geographical distribution by Cyrus Thomas, assisted by John R. Swanton Accompanied with a linguistic map 1911 8°.
Side 391 - On the evolution of language, as exhibited in the specialization of the grammatic processes, the differentiation of the parts of speech, and the integration of the sentence; from a study of Indian languages, by JW Powell. P. 1-16. Sketch of the mythology of the North American Indians, by JW Powell.
Side 235 - The belief on the part of the Indians in the presence of Mountain Spirits in certain localities would seem to have been due in large measure to one or another of three sets of causes: peculiarities in conformation, marking, position, and other features of the rocks...
Side 365 - The men, on the other hand, have the hair carefully parted and combed on each side, and tied in a queue behind. In the young men, it hangs in long locks down their necks, and, with the comb, which is invariably carried stuck in the top of the head, gives to them a most feminine appearance : this is increased by the large necklaces and bracelets of beads, and the careful extirpation of every symptom of beard.
Side 48 - ... difficulty of breathing, inability to articulate, and in a state of complete insensibility, broken occasionally by a paroxysm during which they would utter some indistinct sounds and throw their hands about, as if trying to ward off some threatening evil. They then fell into a comatose state, but were easily roused into a state of violent excitement : they grasped at imaginary objects; there was picking at the bed-clothes, with paroxysms of excessive laughter.