The American Archaeologist, Volumes 2-3

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Landon Printing and Publishing Company, 1898 - America
 

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Page 308 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 80 - It was the Lord's pleasure that, after having journeyed across these deserts seventyseven days, I arrived at the province they call Quivira, to which the guides were conducting me, and where they had described to me houses of stone, with many stories ; and not only are they not of stone, but of straw, but the people in them are as barbarous as all those whom I have seen and passed before this ; they do not have cloaks, nor cotton...
Page 308 - Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 333 - It contains fourteen rooms supplied with many kinds of medical, pharmaceutical and surgical apparatus, the latter including probes, tubes, pincers, cauterising instruments, and even a collection of safety pins used in bandaging wounds. There are also medicine spoons in bone, and silver measuring vessels, jars, and pots for ointment, some still containing traces of the ointment used.
Page iv - FOUR TRIPS PER WEEK BETWEEN Toledo, Detroit and Mackinac PETOSKEY, ''THE SOO," MARQUETTE AND DULUTH. LOW RATES to Picturesque Mackinac and Return, including Meals and Berths. Approximate Cost...
Page ii - ... this work — a number of them unique and of great interest. Some of them represent the most advanced types of ancie'nt art yet discovered north of Mexico, and will be of much value in determining the state of aboriginal society in the Mississippi Valley during the era of the mound-building tribes. Images of stone and terra cotta, advanced types of pottery, inscribed stones, pictographs, engraved gorgets, representing the human form and dress of the period, copper-plated objects of stone and...
Page 112 - ... from a large tomb. During my previous excavations, I had found a great number of traces of Osiris worship, but they could be explained by the general devotion that people of Abydos as well as other parts of Egypt had for the god of the dead, who was also called sometimes 'the Universal Lord,' because men are all submitted to death's law.
Page 261 - Possibly they were heated in pits and split by cooling suddenly with water. Partly made implements were often buried in considerable quantities. It is supposed that these stones were thus softened and rendered more tractable. Such a cache was found some years ago near Hadley, Mass., containing sixty arrow and spear blocks. These blocks are so old that they were turned to an ashy white, they resemble the St. Acheul blocks in shape and coarse chipping. The flakes were gradually chipped down into shape...
Page 337 - And as in the geological history of the globe the Chalk is never found below the Oolite, nor the Oolite below the Coal; so in the Musical History of mankind is the Lyre Stage never found to precede the Pipe Stage, nor the Pipe Stage to precede the Drum Stage.
Page 59 - A curious study is being developed by taking impressions in wax of the ornamental lines on both faces of pottery jars. One can thus often reconstruct, not only the forms of the matting or basketry upon which they were molded, but at times ascertain the nature of the fibres of which the netting or mats were made. " It was a common practice among the aborigines to employ woven fabrics * Jones' Antiquities of the Southern Indians, p.

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