Some First Steps in Human ProgressFlood and Vincent, 1895 - 305 עמודים |
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Africa Ainu America American Indians ancestor worship ancestors ancient animals anthropology archæology Aztecs bark basket bird body bones burial called cannibalism canoe ceremonies character Chinese Confederacy copper cords corpse curious dead district dogs domestic domestic pigs dress drill Egyptian Eskimo Europe fastened feet fire flesh flint four gens gesture language hand head hole horse hunter hunting idea ideograms interesting Iroquois Confederacy Itzcoatl kayak killed kind land living man's mankind means meat metal method Mexico Monogyny natural Ojibwa ornaments phonograms picture-writing piece pottery present primitive race religious roots rude Sacs and Foxes savage says side simple skin somatology soul South South America spear spirits stick Stone Age stone tool story things thought Tlacopan to-day tribes Tylor Uaupes vessels weapons wild woman women wood wooden words
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עמוד 162 - ... other hand attending to her dress, which seemed to be but a light slip, and floating upon the surface until the water was above her waist, when it was instantly turned off, over her head, and thrown ashore; and she boldly plunged forward, swimming and drawing the boat with one hand, which she did with apparent ease.
עמוד 263 - Independent of the above-named duties, which draw the women to this spot, they visit it from inclination, and linger upon it to hold converse and company with the dead. There is scarcely an hour in a pleasant day but more or less of these women may be seen sitting or...
עמוד 251 - none on any account dieth but that some other has bewitched them to death." In South America "even if an Abipone die from being pierced with many wounds, or from having his bones broken, or his strength exhausted by extreme old age, his countrymen all deny that wounds or weakness occasioned his death, and anxiously try to discover by which juggler and for what reason he was killed.
עמוד 263 - There is scarcely an hour in a pleasant day, but more or less of these women may be seen sitting or lying by the skull of their child or husband, talking to it in the most pleasant and endearing language that they can use (as they were wont to do in former days), and seemingly getting an answer back.
עמוד 120 - This, firmly grasped and pressed by the hand alone, then rolled or rocked to and fro, served admirably to deepen straight grooves to any extent desirable, or, if twirled while it was being pressed down and rocked, to impress or deepen curved lines (Fig. 5). When all the lines of the design had been completed by these combined processes of pressure-drawing with the horn tool and pressure-rocking with the bone tool, the plate, on being turned over, exhibited in clearly raised outline the reverse of...
עמוד 162 - The old chief, having learned that we were to cross the river, gave direction to one of the women of his numerous household, who took upon her head a skin-canoe (more familiarly called in this country, a...
עמוד 119 - ... is actually not so liable to scale or crack as when treated with a smooth-faced hammer of iron or steel. As soon as, in my experiments, I have in this manner reduced a plate almost to the desired thinness, I have with a smoother stone (like the back or butt of a worn-out, well-polished diorite celt) supplied with a flexible handle, gone over both sides of it to reduce all the larger irregularities and to partially smooth the surface where pitted by the coarser maul. This may be done partly by...
עמוד 250 - Australians, says that whenever a native dies, ' no matter how evident it 'may be that death has been the result of natural 'causes, it is at once set down that the defunct was ' bewitched by the sorcerers of some neighbouring tribe.
עמוד 227 - ... direct conversation with their son-in-law; nor will he, on any occasion, or under any consideration, converse immediately with them, although no ill-will exists between them ; they will not, on any account, mention each other's name in company, nor look in each other's faces; any conversation that passes between them is conducted through the medium of some other person.
עמוד 120 - ... (Fig. 4) and, continuing the pressure evenly, went over all of the longer lines of the tracing with it. Moderately deep and remarkably sharp smooth grooves were thus plowed or impressed in the ductile metal wherever the horn point had traversed it, except along upward curves and around sharp turns or where hard places happened to occur in the plate. In order to deepen the grooving at such points as these, I found that it was only necessary to use a rounded chisel made from the humérus of a deer,...