Anthropology in North AmericaPapers presented by the American Anthropological Association and the American Folk-Lore Society to the nineteenth International Congress of Americanists, October 1914. Topics include mythology, religion, physical anthropology, material culture etc. of North American Indians. |
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Page 306 - Ethnology, the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum of Natural History (Field Columbian Museum) in Chicago, for a few years the Carnegie Institution of Washington, have worked in this field. Much material is also found in the "Journal of American Folk-Lore," and in the earlier volumes of the "American Anthropologist" and of the "American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal.
Page 165 - Mound-huilders (1881); Races and Peoples (1890); and The American Race (1891). Among his special articles, those deserving more particular notice, are that on "Anthropology, as a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States...
Page 221 - On the Distribution of the Native Tribes of Alaska and the Adjacent Territory (Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol.
Page 143 - The terms used in describing the measurements are perhaps not as specific as those which would be employed today, nearly eight decades later, but the meaning is unmistakably identical. The four other measurements, which now are no more or but seldom employed, were the frontal diameter, taken between the anterior-inferior angles of the parietal bones, the inter-mastoid arc and line, and the joint length of the face and vault.
Page 273 - And, hence, further, in the stress of life, coming into contact or\ more or less close relation with certain bodies of his environment more frequently and in a more decided manner than with the other environing bodies, and learning from these constraining relations to feel that these bodies, through the exercise of their orenda, controlled the conditions of his welfare and in like manner shaped his ill-fare, he came gradually to regard these bodies as the masters, the arbiters, the gods, of his environment,...
Page 83 - North Pacific Coast Area. Ranging northward from California' to the Alaskan peninsula we have an ethnic coast belt, known as the North Pacific Coast area. This culture is rather complex and presents highly individualized tribal variations; but can be consistently treated under three subdivisions : (a) the northern group, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian ; (b) the central group, the Kwakiutl tribes and the Bellacoola; and (c) the southern group, the Coast Salish, the Nootka, the Chinook, Kalapooian,...
Page 178 - FARQUHARSON, RJ A study of skulls and long bones, from mounds near Albany, Illinois.
Page 151 - Phila., 1855, p- 420. Catalogue of human crania in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Page 149 - Lawrence (Lectures on the Natural History of Man) and especially Prichard (Natural History of Mankind) in England. Three volumes belonging to this category were The Races of Man, by Dr Charles Pickering (Publications of the United States Exploring Expedition, 4°, Boston, 1848); the Natural History of Man, by Wm. NF Van Amringe (8°, New York, 1848); and The Natural History of the Human Species, by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (8°, Boston, 1851). These volumes, as seen in part from...
Page 152 - Observations upon the cranial forms of the American aborigines, based upon specimens contained in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila.