Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology
Title Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology PDF eBook
Author
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Total Pages 720
Release 1900
Genre Cherokee Indians
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Ethnology of the Kwakiutl

Ethnology of the Kwakiutl
Title Ethnology of the Kwakiutl PDF eBook
Author Franz Boas
Publisher
Total Pages 712
Release 1921
Genre Indians of North America
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Pictographs of the North American Indians

Pictographs of the North American Indians
Title Pictographs of the North American Indians PDF eBook
Author Garrick Mallery
Publisher DigiCat
Total Pages 294
Release 2022-11-13
Genre History
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A pictograph is a writing by picture. It conveys and records an idea or occurrence by graphic means without the use of words or letters. The execution of the pictures of which it is composed often exhibits the first crude efforts of graphic art, and their study in that relation is of value. When pictures are employed as writing the conception intended to be presented is generally analyzed, and only its most essential points are indicated, with the result that the characters when frequently repeated become conventional, and in their later forms cease to be recognizable as objective portraitures. A general deduction made after several years of study of pictographs of all kinds found among the North American Indians is that they exhibit very little trace of mysticism or of esotericism in any form. They are objective representations and cannot be treated as ciphers or cryptographs in any attempt at their interpretation. A knowledge of the customs, costumes, including arrangement of hair, paint, and all tribal designations, and of their histories and traditions is essential to the understanding of their drawings, for which reason some of those particulars known to have influenced pictography are set forth in this book, and others are suggested which possibly had a similar influence.

The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands

The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands
Title The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands PDF eBook
Author Jesse Walter Fewkes
Publisher University of Alabama Press
Total Pages 330
Release 2009-05-26
Genre History
ISBN 081735574X

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A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing “more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the West Indies.” Until that time, for mainly political reasons, little scientific research had been conducted by Americans on any of the Caribbean islands. Dr. Fewkes' unique skills of observation and experience served him well in the quest to understand Caribbean prehistory and culture. This volume, the result of his careful fieldwork in Puerto Rico in 1902-04, is magnificently illustrated by 93 plates and 43 line drawings of specimens from both public and private collections of the islands. A 1907 article in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland described the volume as “a most valuable contribution to ethnographical science.”

The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians

The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians
Title The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians PDF eBook
Author John Peabody Harrington
Publisher
Total Pages 606
Release 1916
Genre Ethnology
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Picture-writing of the American Indians

Picture-writing of the American Indians
Title Picture-writing of the American Indians PDF eBook
Author Garrick Mallery
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 1972
Genre Picture-writing, Indian
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Indian Land Cessions in the United States

Indian Land Cessions in the United States
Title Indian Land Cessions in the United States PDF eBook
Author Cyrus Thomas
Publisher
Total Pages 477
Release 1899
Genre Indian land transfers
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