Parley's Cabinet Library: Manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South AmericaBradbury, Soden & Company, 1843 |
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... feet eight inches in length , seven feet four inches in width , and five feet eight inches in thickness ; and the other , nineteen feet in length , four feet four inches in width , and four feet in thickness . It should be added , that ...
... feet eight inches in length , seven feet four inches in width , and five feet eight inches in thickness ; and the other , nineteen feet in length , four feet four inches in width , and four feet in thickness . It should be added , that ...
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... feet , and the circumference of its base has been estimated to be from two thousand to two thousand four hundred feet . Upon the southern side is a terrace , twenty feet lower than the summit , which formerly was ap- proached by an ...
... feet , and the circumference of its base has been estimated to be from two thousand to two thousand four hundred feet . Upon the southern side is a terrace , twenty feet lower than the summit , which formerly was ap- proached by an ...
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... feet in perpendicular height ; and has a table area on its summit , which is sixty feet in diameter , in the centre of which is a great and regular concavity . A single white oak rises from this concavity , like a flag staff . " The ...
... feet in perpendicular height ; and has a table area on its summit , which is sixty feet in diameter , in the centre of which is a great and regular concavity . A single white oak rises from this concavity , like a flag staff . " The ...
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