 ... fact of the human body being reduced to ten pounds, by being exposed to a heated atmosphere for a long period of time. The color of the skin was dark, not black; the flesh was hard and dry upon the bones. At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins,...  Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History - Page 324by Boston Society of Natural History - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Clark Bullitt, John Croghan - Mammoth Cave (Ky.) - 1845 - 136 pages
...bones. At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins, a knapsack and an indispensable or reticule. I will describe these in the order in which I have...like the wrapper I have described. Around the top there was a border to add strength and perhaps as an ornament. These were of middling size, denoting... | |
 | Kentucky - 1850 - 608 pages
...bones. At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins, a knapsack, and an indispensable, or reticule. I will describe these in the order in which I have...shape of the moccasins differs but little from the deer skin moccasins worn by the northern Indians. The knapsack was of wove or knit bark, with a deep... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Haiti - 1853 - 466 pages
...bones. At the side of the body lay a pair of moccassins, a knapsack, and an indispensible, or reticule. I will describe these in the order in which I have...have described. Around the top was a border to add strengh, and perhaps as an ornament. These were of middling size, denoting feet of a small size. The... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Haiti - 1854 - 464 pages
...wove or knit bark, like the" wrapper I have described. Around the top was a border to add strenjih, and perhaps as an ornament. These were of middling...shape of the moccasins differs but little from the deer skin mocct(sins worn by the northern Indians. The knapsack was of wove or knit bark, with a deep... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 588 pages
...and dry upon the bones. At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins, a knapsack, and a reticule. The moccasins were made of wove or knit bark, like...wrapper I have described ; around the top was a border for strength and ornament. These denoted feet of small size, and differed but little in shape from... | |
 | I. Winslow Ayer - West (U.S.) - 1880 - 540 pages
...and dry upon the bones. At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins, a knapsack, and a reticule. The moccasins were made of wove or knit bark, like...wrapper I have described; around the top was a border for strength and ornament. These denoted feet of small size, and differed but little in shape from... | |
 | Nels Christian Nelson - Kentucky - 1907 - 376 pages
...At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins, a knapsack, and an indispensable, or reticule .... The moccasins were made of wove or knit bark, like...little from the deerskin moccasins worn by the northern Indians. The knapsack was of a wove or knit bark, with a deep strong border around the top, and was... | |
 | Anthropology - 1917 - 398 pages
...At the side of the body lay a pair of moccasins, a knapsack, and an indispensable, or reticule. . . .The moccasins were made of wove or knit bark, like...little from the deerskin moccasins worn by the northern Indians. The knapsack was of a wove or knit bark, with a deep strong border around the top, and was... | |
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