The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands, Volume 251907 - 218 pages |
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aboriginal AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY amulets animal Antillean appear Arawak Archbishop Meriño collection body Borinqueños bowl British West Indies BUREAU OF AMERICAN cacique called Carib carved cassava cave celts Cempoalan ceremonies clay Columbus conical projection Cruz Cuba culture dance decorated Dehesa collection described Doctor ears evidently eyes figure flat forehead Gómara groove Haiti handle Huaxtec human face images inches incised indicated inhabitants island Jalapa Jamaica Latimer collection legs Lesser Antilles mentioned Mexico mounds mountains mouth natives nose objects Orinoco ornamented Oviedo perforated pestle pictographs pits plate Porto Rico posterior pottery prehistoric Porto Professor Mason pueblo pyramid region relief represented resembling Rican ridge river ruins Santo Domingo Señor shell shows side view Smithsonian Spaniards stone collars stone heads Stone idol stone yokes surface Tamaulipas Tampico temple three-pointed stones Totonac undecorated panel Utuado vase Vera Cruz views of specimen West Indian West Indies wooden Xico zemis
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Page 200 - The hair of these savages was long and coarse, their eyes were encircled with paint, so as to give them a hideous expression ; and bands of cotton were bound firmly above and below the muscular parts of the arms and legs, so as to cause them to swell to a disproportioned size ; a custom prevalent among various tribes of the New World.
Page 168 - Glenroy having led to the selection of this amphitheatre for the scene of ancient public games ; and that these stone collars might commemorate the victor in the chariot race, as the tripods still existing record the victor in the Choragic games of Athens. But no circumstances attending their discovery are known which could aid conjecture either...
Page xxiii - II of the Twenty-second are in press. The Twenty-third was submitted for publication on February 23, and Bulletin 28 was sent to the Public Printer on March 31, 1904. Publications are sent to two classes of recipients: First, regularly, without special request, to working anthropologists, public libraries, scientific societies, institutions of learning, and to other persons or institutions able to contribute to the work of the Bureau publications, ethnologic specimens, or desirable data; second,...
Page 198 - Indian deities in wood, found in June, 1792, in a natural cave near the summit of a mountain, called "Spots...
Page 129 - Rico in the figure of a man, a parrot, an alligator, an albatross, or some other animal precious to these regions where larger animals are not abundant, supporting the island on its back.
Page 206 - ... is either sandstone or wood, and the device is some animal form. In M. Guesde's specimen the material is a dark brown volcanic stone, and the device is the human form. Moreover, the position is inverted. The man is lying on his back, with his feet drawn up to form the legs of the stooi.
Page 42 - ... of a kind of ceremony and prayer which they go to make in it as we go to churches. In this house they have a finely wrought table, round like a wooden dish in which is some powder which is placed by them on the heads of these cemis in performing a certain ceremony; then with a cane that has two branches which they place in their nostrils they snuff up this dust. The words that they say none of our people understand. With this powder they lose consciousness and become like drunken men.
Page 200 - Columbus came on the 10th of November, 1493, to Santa Cruz Island. Here he had a fight with some natives in a dugout and wounded some of them. The hair of these savages was long and coarse, their eyes were encircled with paint so as to give them a hideous expression, and bands of cotton were bound firmly above and below the muscular part of the arms and legs so as to cause them to swell to a disproportioned size.
Page 96 - Their essential characteristic is that shaft and blade are made of one stone. There is in the Smithsonian Museum a cast of a fine specimen of this form from an original in the Trocadero Museum of Paris, having a head carved on the end of the handle. Professor Mason has figured another one loaned to him for the purpose by Mr George J. Gibbs, of which he writes as follows: The use to which these polished celts was put, or more correctly speaking, the manner of hafting them, is graphically illustrated...