The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World |
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Page 149 - As it used to be long ago, may I walk. Happily may I walk. Happily with abundant dark clouds, may I walk. Happily with abundant showers, may I walk. Happily with abundant plants, may I walk. Happily on a trail of pollen, may I walk. Happily may I walk. Being as it used to be long ago, may I walk. May it be happy (or beautiful) before me.
Page 149 - Your offering I make. I have prepared a smoke for you. Restore my feet for me. Restore my legs for me. Restore my body for me. Restore my mind for me.
Page 342 - ... gradually and by the northwestern route in the earlier part of the recent period, after man had reached a relatively high stage of physical development and multiple secondary differentiations. The immigration, in all probability, was a dribbling and prolonged overflow, likely due to pressure from behind, or want, and a search for better hunting and fishing grounds in the direction where no resistance of man as yet existed. This was followed by multiplication, spread, and numerous minor differentiations...
Page 149 - I walk. With lively feelings may I walk. As it used to be long ago, may I walk. Happily may I walk. Happily, with abundant dark clouds, may I walk. Happily, with abundant plants, may I walk. Happily, on a trail of pollen, may I walk. Happily may I walk.
Page 388 - Islands, there appears the tendency to mass upon the Pacific side of the New World. This gives these traits a semblance of continuous distribution with the Island culture. Yet it should be noted that these traits, as enumerated above, have in reality a sporadic distribution in the New World and that there are exceptions. On the other hand, there is no great a priori improbability that some of these traits did reach the New World from the Pacific Islands.
Page 150 - I look toward the south, to great Mount Koonak, To great Mount Koonak, there to the south ; I watch the clouds that gather round him ; I contemplate their shining brightness ; They spread abroad upon great Koonak ; They climb up his seaward flanks; See how they shift and change ; Watch them there to the south ; How the one makes beautiful the other ; How they mount his southern slopes, Hiding him from the stormy sea, Each lending beauty to the other.
Page 228 - ... stone tools, but nephrite or green stone used; wood work highly developed, splitting and dressing of planks, peculiar bending for boxes, joining by securing with concealed stitches, high development of carving technique ; work in copper may have been aboriginal, but: if so, very weakly developed. The central group differs in a few minor points; use a hand stone hammer instead of a hafted one, practically no use of skin clothing but twisted and loosely woven bark or wool; no coil or twined basketry,...
Page 224 - ... handled scrapers; while wood work was more advanced than among the Plains tribes it was insignificant as compared to the North Pacific Coast area; stone work was confined to the making of tools and points, battering and flaking, some jadeite tools; work in bone, metal, and feathers very weak. The Shahaptian group includes tribes of the Waiilatpuan stock. The underground house seems to be wanting here, but the Nez Perce used a form of it for a young men's lodge.
Page 446 - WILSON, THOMAS. The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and its Migrations; with Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times (Report, United States National Museum for 1894, Washington, 1896).
Page 233 - ... reminding one of sennit ; snares and nets for all kinds of game ; the use of spruce and birchbark for vessels and canoes ; basketry of split spruce root (watap) for cooking with hot stones noted by early observers; the toboggan; in summer the use of the dog to carry tents and other baggage; extensive use of babiche ; the short-handled stone adze ; iron pyrites instead of the firedrill and fungus for touchwood; the use of the cache; and above all, dependence upon the caribou. These seem to be...