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aboriginal Algonkin American Anthropologist American Museum ancient ANTH Anthropological archeological arrowpoints Atakapa Athabaskan Boas brother Cahu caves ceremonial chief clan classificatory clay Coahuilteco coast collection Comecrudo consonants Cora corresponding Cotoname culture dialects Dr Michelson Dr Rivers Dr Sapir elements Eskimo Ethnology evidence examples exogamous father figure geminated Greenland gusle Haida Handsome Lake head Hopi Huich Hupa Indians Iroquois island Karankawa kinship languages Lapps linguistic material Maya Melanesia Mexican Mexico mother's Museum of Natural Na-dene Na-dene languages Nahuatl nasalized native noun object Ojibwa original paper phonetic plural pottery prefix present primitive probably Professor region represented resemblances Salvador Saona screw seems Shoshonean sister social Society Southern Paiute specimens spirantized stem stone suffix Tenon Tepecano Tewa Tlingit Tonkawa tribes Tüb University Uto-Aztekan verb vessels vowel Wiyot York Yurok
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Page 218 - Ball in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland for 1 902, but this map is based on a re-examination of the evidence. Fig 12. Battle of Rathmines. ELSEWHERE: 'Gunpowder Plot
Page 406 - ... child. About the legs and other parts of it was bound strings and bracelets of fine white beads. There was also by it a little bow, about three quarters long, and some other odd knacks. We brought sundry of the prettiest things away with us, and covered the corpse up again. After this we digged in sundry like places, but found no more corn, nor anything else but graves.
Page 297 - ... Frank G. Speck finds that family proprietorship among the Indians of the Peninsula included retaliation against trespass. Animal resources were husbanded. Sometimes conservation practices were carried on extensively. Family hunting territories were divided into quarters. Each year the family hunted in a different quarter in rotation, leaving a tract in the center as a sort of bank, not to be hunted over unless forced to do so by a shortage in the regular tract.
Page 406 - Bundles, the one bigger, the other lesse, we opened the greater and found in it a great quantitie of fine and perfect red Powder, and in it the bones and skull of a man. The skull had fine yellow haire...
Page 182 - He declared that he had been taken up to the spirit world and had been permitted to lift the veil of the past and the future — had seen the misery of evil doers and learned the happiness that awaited those who followed the precepts of the Indian god. He then began an earnest exhortation, denouncing the witchcraft practices and medicine juggleries of the tribe, and solemnly warning his hearers that none who had part in such things would ever taste of the future happiness. The firewater of the whites...
Page 288 - In fine, the determinations and methods of biological, psychological, or natural science do not exist for history, just as the results and the manner of operation of history are disregarded by consistent biological practice. Most biologists have implicitly followed their aspect of this doctrine, but their consequent success has tempted many historians, especially sociologists, anthropologists, and theorists, to imitate them instead of pursuing their proper complementary method.
Page 105 - N. uapali"planche," we mus suppose that final i of *ypin'i- was syncopated and that -n'-, not being able to stand at the end of a word, could maintain itself only when followed by a stopped consonant, in other words, lingered on as a nasalizing peculiarity of the stem. There is no doubt, from comparative evidence, that there are several cases in Southern Paiute (and other Shoshonean dialects) of nasalized consonants resulting from the syncope of a vowel between an original nasal (m, n, or r/) and...
Page 294 - ... upon the very path of the hunter, in the river or lake. Instinctively, the hunter understands how to operate with a natural law, which no game commission can improve on, and to maintain the beaver there for his subsistence. He understands, moreover, that he cannot abuse his opportunity. Thus it is that the Indian, obeying a natural law of conservation, which is worth more than any written law to him, never destroys all the members of a beaver family.
Page 658 - England. Hatreds were intense and persecutions cruel and bitter, until men's minds gave way under the strain. "The air was thick with reports of prophecies and miracles, and there were men of all parties who lived on the border land between sanity and insanity.
Page 364 - Section of Anthropology and Psychology of the New York Academy of Sciences, at Yale University, New Haven, October 20, 1003.