Houses and House-life of the American AboriginesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 - 281 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
adobe brick adobe mortar altepetlalli American aborigines ancient Animas River Aztecs calpulli Central America Chaco Chiapas chiefs Cibola communism in living confederacy constructed council council of chiefs court cultivated dinner doorways edifices embankments ESTUFA ESTUFA ESTUFA families federacy feet high feet long feet wide five floor four gens gentes gentile ground ground-plan Herrera hundred feet Indian tribes inhabitants Iroquois joint-tenement houses ladders land large households lintels lodge long-houses main building maize Mandan masonry ment Mexicans Mexico Middle Status miles Moki Montezuma MORGAN Mound-Builders occupied Ojibwa Onondaga Palenque period persons phratry poles present principle probably Pueblo Bonito Pueblo Indians Pueblo Pintado remains remarks roof rooms row of apartments ruins sachems San Juan side society Spaniards Spanish square Status of barbarism stories high structures Taos terraces town twenty usages Uxmal valley Village Indians walls wing Yucatan Zuñi Zuñians
Pasajes populares
Página 66 - They did not hesitate, when occasion required, "to knock off the horns," as it was technically called, from the head of a chief, and send him back to the ranks of the warriors...
Página 66 - The stores were in common ; but woe to the luckless husband or lover who was too shiftless to do his share of the providing. No matter how many children or whatever goods he might have in the house, he might at any time be ordered to pick up his blanket and budge ; and after such orders it would not be healthful for him to attempt to disobey.
Página 52 - They now set before them a small piece of buffalo meat, some dried salmon, berries, and several kinds of roots. Among these last is one which is round and much like an onion in appearance and sweet to the taste: it is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.
Página 109 - ... a single house, because the whole is under one roof; otherwise it would seem more like a range of buildings, as it is divided into seven distinct apartments, each thirty feet square, by means of broad boards set on end from the floor to the roof.
Página 124 - ... feet, raised a foot above the passage by a long sapling, hewed square, and fitted with joists that go from it to the back of the house; on these joists they lay large pieces of bark, and on extraordinary occasions spread...
Página 218 - But among all the other inhabitants of America, there is such a striking similitude in the form of their bodies and the qualities of their minds, that, notwithstanding the diversities occasioned by the influence of climate, or unequal progress in improvement, we must pronounce them to be descended from one source.
Página 67 - Against the fire they lie on little hurdles of Reedes ™«> covered with a mat, borne from the ground a foote and *"**' more by a hurdle of wood. On these round about the house, they lie heads and points one by th[e] other against the fire : some covered with mats, some with skins, and some starke naked lie on the ground ; from 6 to 20 in a house.
Página 37 - When the sachems of the several tribes had, by this ingenious method, become of one mind separately, it remained to compare their several opinions, and if they agreed the decision of the council was made. If they failed of agreement the measure was defeated and the council was at an end. The five persons appointed to express the decision of the five tribes may possibly explain the appointment and the functions of the six electors, so called, in the Aztec confederacy. By this method of gaining assent...
Página 160 - After this they returned to their houses and suddenly, the next day, they packed up their goods and property, their women and children, and fled to the hills, leaving their towns deserted, with only some few remaining in them.
Página 116 - ... of the house there is a hole made for the smoake to goe into right over the fire. Against the fire they lie on little hurdles of Reeds covered with a Mat, borne from the ground a foote and more by a hurdle of wood. On these round about the house they lie heads and points one by th' other against the fire, some covered with Mats, some with skins, and some starke naked lie on the ground, from 6 to 20 in a house.