Parley's Cabinet Library: Manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South AmericaBradbury, Soden & Company, 1843 |
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Page 52
... carried on partly by barter , and partly by 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 ...
... carried on partly by barter , and partly by 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 ...
Page 53
... carried a load of fifty pounds . Sometimes the number was several hundreds , and if the party was attacked , they made a formidable resistance . Great privileges were allowed to the merchants by the sovereign , who often employed them ...
... carried a load of fifty pounds . Sometimes the number was several hundreds , and if the party was attacked , they made a formidable resistance . Great privileges were allowed to the merchants by the sovereign , who often employed them ...
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... carried lighted lamps . The Saviour was then led up to the door , and all the crowd went up to kiss his feet . The figure which is carried about this eve- ning , is called " Our Saviour of the Column , " and represents the Saviour tied ...
... carried lighted lamps . The Saviour was then led up to the door , and all the crowd went up to kiss his feet . The figure which is carried about this eve- ning , is called " Our Saviour of the Column , " and represents the Saviour tied ...
Contents
THE MEXICAN INDIANS | 7 |
ANTIQUITIES OF CENTRAL AMERICA | 89 |
INDIANS OF PERU | 105 |
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Abipones America 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