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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Author: Garrick Mallery
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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A pictograph is a writing by picture. It conveys and records an idea or occurrence by graphic means without the use of words or letters. The execution of the pictures of which it is composed often exhibits the first crude efforts of graphic art, and their study in that relation is of value. When pictures are employed as writing the conception intended to be presented is generally analyzed, and only its most essential points are indicated, with the result that the characters when frequently repeated become conventional, and in their later forms cease to be recognizable as objective portraitures. A general deduction made after several years of study of pictographs of all kinds found among the North American Indians is that they exhibit very little trace of mysticism or of esotericism in any form. They are objective representations and cannot be treated as ciphers or cryptographs in any attempt at their interpretation. A knowledge of the customs, costumes, including arrangement of hair, paint, and all tribal designations, and of their histories and traditions is essential to the understanding of their drawings, for which reason some of those particulars known to have influenced pictography are set forth in this book, and others are suggested which possibly had a similar influence.
Author: Franz Boas
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: Jesse Walter Fewkes
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081735574X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing “more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the West Indies.” Until that time, for mainly political reasons, little scientific research had been conducted by Americans on any of the Caribbean islands. Dr. Fewkes' unique skills of observation and experience served him well in the quest to understand Caribbean prehistory and culture. This volume, the result of his careful fieldwork in Puerto Rico in 1902-04, is magnificently illustrated by 93 plates and 43 line drawings of specimens from both public and private collections of the islands. A 1907 article in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland described the volume as “a most valuable contribution to ethnographical science.”
Author: John Peabody Harrington
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Author: Garrick Mallery
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: James Mooney
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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: Cyrus Thomas
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Category : Indian land transfers
Languages : en
Pages : 477
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Author: John Wesley Powell
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by John Wesley Powell is about the various myths in Native American culture. Excerpt: "The wonders of the course of nature have ever challenged attention. In savagery, barbarism, and civilization alike, the mind of man has sought the explanation of things. The movements of the heavenly bodies, the change of seasons, the succession of night and day, the powers of the air, majestic mountains, ever-flowing rivers, perennial springs, the flight of birds, the gliding of serpents, the growth of trees, the blooming of flowers, the forms of storm-carved rocks, the mysteries of life and death, the institutions of society—many are the things to be explained."
Author: Lucien McShan Turner
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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