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Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology
Author: Cyrus ThomasPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342836673
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Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Ethnology of the Kwakiutl
Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Pictographs of the North American Indians
Author: Garrick MalleryPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Picture-writing of the American Indians ...
Author: Garrick MalleryPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among the North American Indians
Author: Harry Crécy YarrowPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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The Central Eskimo
Author: Franz BoasPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752390204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Central Eskimo by Franz Boas
The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
Author: James MooneyPublisher:
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Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands
Author: Jesse Walter FewkesPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081735574X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.”
Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory
Author: Lucien McShan TurnerPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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