Parley's Cabinet Library: Manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South AmericaBradbury, Soden & Company, 1843 |
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... remarkable for their elegance . In the neighborhood of these ruins are the remains of a great pyramid . Another singular monument of which Humboldt obtained information , was Xochicalco or the House of Flowers , near the city of ...
... remarkable for their elegance . In the neighborhood of these ruins are the remains of a great pyramid . Another singular monument of which Humboldt obtained information , was Xochicalco or the House of Flowers , near the city of ...
Page 113
... remarkable , however , that they ate flesh raw . Maize was a staple article of food . In the earlier periods of their history , they devoured human flesh , but this practice ceased from the time of Manco Ca- pac . The public regulations ...
... remarkable , however , that they ate flesh raw . Maize was a staple article of food . In the earlier periods of their history , they devoured human flesh , but this practice ceased from the time of Manco Ca- pac . The public regulations ...
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... remarkable power in the cure of diseases . Most of these were impostors , who per- formed certain incantations , serving no other purpose than to delude the patients , and enable the quack to extort from them an exorbitant fee . They ...
... remarkable power in the cure of diseases . Most of these were impostors , who per- formed certain incantations , serving no other purpose than to delude the patients , and enable the quack to extort from them an exorbitant fee . They ...
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