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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Side 12
... reached San- tiago . The three weeks spent in Santiago were taken up largely with the affairs of the delegation , including official duties and attendance on meetings of the congress . The section of the natural sciences , including ...
... reached San- tiago . The three weeks spent in Santiago were taken up largely with the affairs of the delegation , including official duties and attendance on meetings of the congress . The section of the natural sciences , including ...
Side 13
... reached the human status - occupied a limited area . ( 3 ) That this area was tropical or subtropical and was situated in the Old World rather than in the New . ( 4 ) That multiplication of numbers led to wide distribution , and that ...
... reached the human status - occupied a limited area . ( 3 ) That this area was tropical or subtropical and was situated in the Old World rather than in the New . ( 4 ) That multiplication of numbers led to wide distribution , and that ...
Side 14
... reached on February 11 , and reports were then prepared for the institutions which the chief represented as delegate and for publication in scientific journals . The services of the chief were enlisted during the early months of the ...
... reached on February 11 , and reports were then prepared for the institutions which the chief represented as delegate and for publication in scientific journals . The services of the chief were enlisted during the early months of the ...
Side 27
... reached a high development among the 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 ...
... reached a high development among the 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 ...
Side 35
... reaching their goal were contented to remain . The migration legend of the Zuñi relates that they were driven from their homes at this " middle place " by a great flood that covered the earth , to To'wa yäl'länně ( ' corn mountain ...
... reaching their goal were contented to remain . The migration legend of the Zuñi relates that they were driven from their homes at this " middle place " by a great flood that covered the earth , to To'wa yäl'länně ( ' corn mountain ...
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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.