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... inches below the surface . In appearance they bear every mark of being much older than other specimens found in the same district , but unfortunately among the lot as forwarded to us was an arrow - head of decidedly more recent type ...
... inches below the surface . In appearance they bear every mark of being much older than other specimens found in the same district , but unfortunately among the lot as forwarded to us was an arrow - head of decidedly more recent type ...
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... inches , but no trace of palisades was found anywhere . At a place near the south - east point , where the outer bank measured seventeen feet across the base , and was three and a half feet above the adjacent level , we made a cut the ...
... inches , but no trace of palisades was found anywhere . At a place near the south - east point , where the outer bank measured seventeen feet across the base , and was three and a half feet above the adjacent level , we made a cut the ...
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... inches in diameter , Another child's grave opened by Dr. Beeman contained a number of glass beads and a circular wooden box about three inches in diameter , holding within it a small native - copper spoon- like article , and a tiny ...
... inches in diameter , Another child's grave opened by Dr. Beeman contained a number of glass beads and a circular wooden box about three inches in diameter , holding within it a small native - copper spoon- like article , and a tiny ...
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... inch from the notches . Can this be be- cause the handle was split and each side extended along the spear head making a point of least resistance ? It is quite possible that these spears may have been used for the purpose of spearing ...
... inch from the notches . Can this be be- cause the handle was split and each side extended along the spear head making a point of least resistance ? It is quite possible that these spears may have been used for the purpose of spearing ...
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... inches in height and nine inches in diameter . The piece of pottery - ware represented in the cut. 23 55 Victoria . A. 1892 Sessional Papers ( No. 17 ) .
... inches in height and nine inches in diameter . The piece of pottery - ware represented in the cut. 23 55 Victoria . A. 1892 Sessional Papers ( No. 17 ) .
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Página 8 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 10 - Gauzini travelled back in quest of his own, and at last reached the place where he had died. There he could see only a great fire before and around him, and finding the flames barring his passage on every side, he made a desperate leap through, and awoke from his trance. Having concluded his story, he gave his auditors this counsel, that they should no longer deposit so many burdensome things with the dead, delaying them on their journey to the place of repose, so that almost everyone he met complained...
Página 9 - Superior, and once, after a few days illness, he seemed to die. He had been a skilful hunter, and had desired that a fine gun which he possessed should be buried with him when he died. But some of his friends, not thinking him really dead, his body was not buried; his widow watched him for four days, he came back to life, and told his story. After death, he said, his ghost traveled on the broad road of the dead toward the happy land, passing over great plains of luxuriant herbage, seeing beautiful...
Página 8 - ... and sometimes hardly changed at all. Look at the modern European peasant using his hatchet and his hoe, see his food boiling or roasting over the log-fire, observe the exact place which beer holds in his calculation of happiness, hear his tale of the ghost in the nearest haunted house, and of the farmer's niece who was bewitched with knots in her inside till she fell into fits and died. If we choose out in this way things which have altered...
Página 10 - ... stately deer and moose, and other game, which with little fear walked near his path. But he had no gun, and remembering how he had requested his friends to put his gun in his grave, he turned back to go and fetch it. Then he met face to face the train of men, women, and children, who were traveling toward the city of the dead. They were heavily laden with guns, pipes, kettles, meats, and other articles ; women were carrying basketwork and painted paddles, and little boys had their ornamented...
Página 8 - Even when it comes to comparing barbarous hordes with civilized nations, the consideration thrusts itself upon our minds, how far item after item of the life of the lower races passes into analogous proceedings of the higher, in forms not too far changed to be recognized, and sometimes hardly changed at all.
Página 8 - ... kept in secrecy, and transmitted to the initiated only, in the secret societies of witches, shamans, and priests, which we find among all savages. By the same time, wars and invasions created military authority, as also castes of warriors, whose associations or clubs acquired great powers. However, at no period of man's life were wars the normal state of existence. While warriors exterminated each other, and the priests celebrated their massacres, the masses continued to live their daily life,...
Página 32 - ... progressions, plane and spherical trigonometry, mensuration of superficies, laying out and dividing of land, descriptions by metes and bounds for deeds and other documents, the use and adjustment of surveying and levelling instruments, the laying out of curves, practical astronomy, including finding of time, latitude, longitude, azimuth, variation of the compass, and drawing meridian lines, the Acts relating to...
Página 10 - ... mist, and spangled with glittering lakes and streams. He came in view of herds of stately deer and moose, and other game, which with little fear walked near his path. But he had no gun, and remembering how he had requested his friends to put his gun in his grave, he turned back to go and fetch it. Then he met face to face the train of men, women, and children, who were traveling toward the city of the dead. They were heavily laden with guns, pipes, kettles, meats, and other articles ; women were...
Página 13 - Governer-Generai, praying that he will cause to be laid before this House copies of all correspondence...