The Manners, Customs and Antiquities of the Indians of North and South America, Volume 12 |
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... character , was worthy of a great prince . " The taste for display was by no means confined to the monarch , for it was visible in the dress of all ranks . House of the better class . DWELLINGS . - The THE MEXICAN INDIANS . 13.
... character , was worthy of a great prince . " The taste for display was by no means confined to the monarch , for it was visible in the dress of all ranks . House of the better class . DWELLINGS . - The THE MEXICAN INDIANS . 13.
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... mean ideas of the mechanical skill to which these people had arrived . They excelled , likewise , in metal castings , and also made images of gold and silver , parrots with movable heads , tongues and wings , and movable apes . In short ...
... mean ideas of the mechanical skill to which these people had arrived . They excelled , likewise , in metal castings , and also made images of gold and silver , parrots with movable heads , tongues and wings , and movable apes . In short ...
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... all rigid , and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree , were the means employed to appease the wrath of their gods . The Mexicans never approached their altars without sprinkling them with blood drawn 30 THE MEXICAN INDIANS .
... all rigid , and many of them excruciating to an extreme degree , were the means employed to appease the wrath of their gods . The Mexicans never approached their altars without sprinkling them with blood drawn 30 THE MEXICAN INDIANS .
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... means of pre- dicting the event of a battle . Two of their bravest chiefs were to shoot them at the enemy and recover them , or die . If the arrows struck and killed or wounded , it was held to be an omen that the fight would be ...
... means of pre- dicting the event of a battle . Two of their bravest chiefs were to shoot them at the enemy and recover them , or die . If the arrows struck and killed or wounded , it was held to be an omen that the fight would be ...
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... means of a regulated currency of different values . This consisted of quills of gold dust , bits of tin in the form of a T , and bags of cacao containing a certain number of grains . Trade was held in estimation , and the occupation of ...
... means of a regulated currency of different values . This consisted of quills of gold dust , bits of tin in the form of a T , and bags of cacao containing a certain number of grains . Trade was held in estimation , and the occupation of ...
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Abipones American Anahuac ancient animals antiquities appear Araucanians arrows Atahualpa Aztec beautiful birds body caciques called Camanchees ceremony character chief Cholula civilization cloth colors conquest corn Cortés cotton covered cultivated customs Cuzco dance death dress dwellings earth enemies fastened feast feathers feet high fish flesh flowers gold ground hair head horses houses Huascar Huayna Capac human hundred hunting idol Incas Indians inhabitants kind lake language live lodge maize Manco Capac manner Mexicans Mexico miles Montezuma mounds mountains nation noble ornaments Osage painting palace Palenque party Pawnees person Peru Peruvians possessed present priests pulque Quito race remains resembling river ruins sacrifice savage scalps sculptured seen side silver skins sometimes songs Spaniards Spanish Spirit square stone temple terrace Tezcuco tion Toltecs trees tribes tumuli village warriors whole wigwam wild women woods yanaconas
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Page 263 - Within the paths of righteousness, ev'n for his own name's sake. *Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still.
Page 99 - ... the face of a monument, and then to dig around and bring to light a fragment, a sculptured corner of which protruded from the earth. I leaned over with breathless anxiety while the Indians worked, and an eye, an ear, a foot, or a hand was disentombed; and when the machete rang against the chiselled stone, I pushed the Indians away, and cleared out the loose earth with my hands. The beauty of the sculpture, the solemn stillness of the woods, disturbed only by the scrambling of monkeys and the...
Page 263 - My table Thou hast furnished In presence of my foes ; My head Thou dost with oil anoint, And my cup overflows. 5 Goodness and mercy all my life Shall surely follow me : And in God's house for evermore My dwelling-place shall be.
Page 98 - It is impossible to describe the interest with which I explored these ruins. The ground was entirely new; there were no guide-books or guides; the whole was a virgin soil. We could not see ten yards before us, and never knew what we should stumble upon next. At one time we stopped to cut away branches and vines which concealed the...
Page 38 - The lips and bosom of the infant were sprinkled with water, and "the Lord was implored to permit the holy drops to wash away the sin that was given to it before the foundation of the world; so that the child might be born anew.
Page 303 - ... back ; by which he has the power of throwing himself up again, and changing to the other side of the horse if necessary. In this wonderful condition, he will hang whilst his horse is at fullest speed, carrying with him his bow and his shield, and also his long lance of fourteen feet in length, all or either of which he will wield upon his enemy as he passes ; rising and throwing his arrows over the horse's back, or with equal ease and equal success under the horse's neck...
Page 329 - ... (on a level and beautiful prairie), which before had been strained tight and fixed, were seen waving and flapping in the wind, and in one minute more all were flat upon the ground. Their horses and dogs, of which they...
Page 38 - Is this punishment intended, not for our reformation, but for our destruction?" Again, "Impart to us, out of thy great mercy, thy gifts, which we are not worthy to receive through our own merits".
Page 96 - Egyptians ; one, displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots ; another locked in the close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth; another, hurled to the ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers ; and one standing, with its altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around, seemingly to shade and shroud it, as a sacred thing in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people.
Page 86 - The hair is divided, and falls down behind in two long plaits, fastened at the top by a bow of ribbon and a flower. In this dress there is no alteration from what they wore in former days; saving that the women of a higher class wore a dress of finer cotton with more embroidery, and a loose garment over all, resembling a priest's surplice, when the weather was cold. Among the men, the introduction of trousers is Spanish — but they still wear the...