Parley's Cabinet Library: Manners, customs, and antiquities of the Indians of North and South AmericaBradbury, Soden & Company, 1843 |
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Page 187
... savage life . Around the heads of bays , and along the banks of rivers , where fish were plentiful , and where also the deer was abundant , they seemed to collect in swarms . In other parts of the country , they were more scattered ...
... savage life . Around the heads of bays , and along the banks of rivers , where fish were plentiful , and where also the deer was abundant , they seemed to collect in swarms . In other parts of the country , they were more scattered ...
Page 236
... savage intelli- gence ; the stars and the mountains live ; the river and the lake , and the waves have a spirit . Every hidden agency , every mysterious influence is personi- fied , a god dwells in the sun and in the moon , and in the ...
... savage intelli- gence ; the stars and the mountains live ; the river and the lake , and the waves have a spirit . Every hidden agency , every mysterious influence is personi- fied , a god dwells in the sun and in the moon , and in the ...
Page 266
... savage horde has been caught with it in a state of chaos , or as if just emerging from the rudeness of indistinguishable sounds . No American language bears marks of being an arbitrary aggregation of separate parts ; but each is ...
... savage horde has been caught with it in a state of chaos , or as if just emerging from the rudeness of indistinguishable sounds . No American language bears marks of being an arbitrary aggregation of separate parts ; but each is ...
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