Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Volume 31U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 "List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (comp. by Frederick Webb Hodge)": |
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Page 7 - March 4, 1909, authorizing the continuation of ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution...
Page 479 - Nah-t'singh to this day, and it is the identical cctuntry which the Nat-singh occupied. The Na-tsik-koo-chin inhabit the high ridge of land between the Youcon and the Arctic sea. They live entirely on the flesh of the reindeer, and are very dark-skinned compared with the Chit-sangh, who live a good deal on fish. All the elderly men fish the salmon and salmon trout during the summer, while the young men hunt the moose, and have regular white-fish fisheries every autumn besides.
Page 61 - He took off the raven skin and put it down near the hole of the sky. He went on, and came to a spring near the house of the chief of heaven. There he sat down and waited. Then the chief's daughter came out, carrying a small bucket in which she was about to fetch water. She went down to the big spring in front of her father's house. When Giant saw her coming along, he transformed himself into the leaf of a cedar and floated on the water. The chief's daughter dipped it up in her bucket and drank it....
Page 879 - ... a-prioristic" schools of mythologists, in whose belief the mythologies sprang independently in different parts of the world from the uniform and essential activities of the human mind coupled with the contemplation of nature and, more particularly, of the sky phenomena. Let us quote again (pp. 879-881): ... I insist that the attempt to interpret mythology as a direct reflex of the contemplation of nature is not sustained by the facts.
Page 536 - ... time water is thrown upon the spectators through the roof. This performance is accompanied by the song of the women, who sit on three platforms in the rear of the house. The song relates to the myth which is represented in the performance. Burial. — The burial is attended to by members of the clan of the father of the deceased, who are paid for their services. Four or five men bend the head of the body down and his knees up. Thus he is placed in a box. Chiefs lie in state for some days, while...
Page 60 - The whole world was still covered with darkness. When the sky was clear, the people would have a little light from the stars; and when clouds were in the sky, it was very dark all over the land. The people were distressed by this. Then Giant thought that it would be hard for him to obtain his food if it were always dark.
Page 538 - An old chief in cold blood ordered a slave to be dragged to the beach, murdered, and thrown into the water. His orders were quickly obeyed. The victim was a poor woman. Two or three reasons are assigned for this foul act. One is, that it is to take away the disgrace attached to his daughter, who has been suffering for some time with a ball-wound in the arm.
Page 61 - He ran away, and the hosts of heaven pursued him. They shouted that Giant was running away with the ma. He came to the hole of the sky, put on the skin of the raven, and flew down, carrying the ma. Then the hosts of heaven returned to their houses, and he flew down with it to our world. At that time the world was still dark. He arrived farther up the river, and went down river. Giant had come down near the mouth of Nass River. He went to the mouth of Nass River. It was always dark, and he carried...
Page 479 - Nah-tsingh many a Chit-sangh woman the children are Chit-sangh, so that the divisions are always changing. As the fathers die out the country inhabited by the Chit-sangh becomes occupied by the Nah-tsingh, and so on vice versa.
Page 25 - Bureau and the assignment of its members to less crowded quarters made it necessary to supply a few additional articles of furniture, especially for the library. The entire cost of the furniture acquired during the fiscal year was $243.17. ADMINISTRATION. Pursuant to the plans of the secretary the clerical and laboring work of the Bureau was concentrated after the removal to the Smithsonian building by placing the routine correspondence and files, the accounts, the shipment of publications, the care...