Parley's Cabinet Library: Manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South AmericaBradbury, Soden & Company, 1843 |
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... dress , there is no alteration from what they wore in former days : saving , that a woman of a higher class , wore a dress of fine cotton , with more embroidery , and a loose garment over all , resembling a priest's surplice , when the ...
... dress , there is no alteration from what they wore in former days : saving , that a woman of a higher class , wore a dress of fine cotton , with more embroidery , and a loose garment over all , resembling a priest's surplice , when the ...
Page 109
... DRESS . It would appear that the Peruvians pos- sessed that love of display common to a barbarous people . When Atahualpa had his first interview with Pizarro , he appeared before him with nearly the same pomp that attended Montezuma in ...
... DRESS . It would appear that the Peruvians pos- sessed that love of display common to a barbarous people . When Atahualpa had his first interview with Pizarro , he appeared before him with nearly the same pomp that attended Montezuma in ...
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... dress of the women is a tunic of turquoise color , a girdle , and a short cloak , fastened in front , as well as upon the shoulders with brooches and buckles . This is without sleeves . Their dress is never varied , except as to ...
... dress of the women is a tunic of turquoise color , a girdle , and a short cloak , fastened in front , as well as upon the shoulders with brooches and buckles . This is without sleeves . Their dress is never varied , except as to ...
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