Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 3; Volumes 14-20John Wilson and Son, 1887 |
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American Archæology ancient cemetery Anderson Township antler Archæology Archæology and Ethnology argillite arrowheads ASA GRAY ashes Boston buffalo Building Fund burial burnt C. L. METZ Cambridge carved Cave celts centre ceremonies chipped clay Collected and presented crania Curator Damariscotta river diameter dolichocephali earth earthen edge Ethnology explorations F. W. PUTNAM feet flakes four fragments of pottery gens ghost lodge grave Grooved stone axe hammered hammerstones HARVARD COLLEGE head holes human bones Indian interest Iroquois knives Little Miami valley LUCIEN CARR Madisonville Mass METZ mound Museum Fund Museum of American native copper objects obtained Ohio Omahas ornaments pamphlets PEABODY MUSEUM perforated pieces Pike co pipes pits portion pots presented by Dr Prof Pueblo received river scrapers shellheaps side skin skull Society song specimens STEPHEN SALISBURY stone celt stone implements stone-graves surface suture tent THEODORE LYMAN Treasurer tribes Trustees volume wa-wan party
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Page 206 - ... his share of the providing. No matter how many children or whatever goods he might have in the house, he might at any time be ordered to pick up his blanket and budge ; and after such orders it would not be healthful for him to attempt to disobey. The house would be too hot for him, and, unless saved by the intercession of some aunt or grandmother, he must retreat to his own clan ; or, as was often done, go and start a new matrimonial alliance in some other. The women were the great power among...
Page 284 - With these limitations, two areas only seem to. be at all suitable, one on the south and the other on the north side of the main channel, just above Governor's and Castle islands.
Page 218 - The women were the great power among the clans, as everywhere else They did not hesitate, when occasion required, to 'knock off the horns,' as it was technically called, from the head of a chief and send him back to the ranks of the warriors The original nomination of the chiefs also always rested with them.
Page 61 - Kentucky ; the Boston Society of Natural History ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; the American Philosophical Society; the...
Page 207 - ... it is we that plant it, for our and their use. Hear us, therefore, for we speak of things that concern us and our children, and you must not think hard of us, while our men shall say more to you; for we have told them.
Page 136 - Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, $3 00. SQUIER'S PERU. Peru : Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas. By E. GEORGE SQUIER, MA, FSA, late US Commissioner to Peru.
Page 269 - Membership in these societies is not confined to any particular gens, or grouping of gens, but depends upon supernatural indications over which the individual has no control. The animal which appears to a man in a vision during his religious fasting determines to which society he must...
Page 398 - It became evident, as our exploration progressed, that these chambers were covered by little mounds of gravel and clay, and that, in those where the burning had taken place, the coverings of earth were placed in position before the bodies were consumed, shown by the small amount of ashes and the reduction of the logs to charcoal in their position on the clay floor of the chamber, which was burned to a thickness varying with the amount of heat. It is probable that the burials and cremations did not...
Page 265 - If you tie up the clothes of an orphan child the Great Spirit will notice it and reward you for it." "To adopt orphans and bring them up in virtuous ways is pleasing to the Great Spirit.
Page 469 - Trustees shall invest fortyfive thousand dollars as a fund, the income of which shall be applied to forming and preserving collections of antiquities, and objects relating to the earlier races of the American Continent, or such (including such books and works as may form a good working library for the departments of science indicated) as 27 shall be requisite for the investigation and illustration of Archaeology and Ethnology in general, in main and special reference, however, to the aboriginal American...