Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volumen1John Wilson and Son, 1876 |
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1st inst Agassiz American Archæology ancient Annual Report ASA GRAY Building Fund burial caves Clair River Cocke County Collection Fund crania cranium Curator E. G. Squier Ethnology explorations F. W. Putnam feet FELLOWS OF HARVARD Five per cent Florida Foramen Magnum George Peabody Gold Harvard College head heaps humerus Indian Interest on Worcester Interest Seven Islands JEFFRIES WYMAN John's River July Kentucky Lake large number Massachusetts Five Mortillet mound Museum of American Nashua R. R. Nashua Railroad Co.'s ornaments paid for Worcester Peabody Museum Peru Peruvian pottery PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS Professor Fund Railroad Co.'s Note rec'd 6 Months received on sale received Six Months River Seven per cent shell shellheaps Six per cent skeleton skull Specie Notes specimens STEPHEN SALISBURY stone implements surface tibiæ Treasurer Trustees vases vessels Winthrop Worcester & Nashua Worcester and Nashua Worcester Note Worcester Sewer Bonds Worcester Water Bonds
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Página 23 - ... evidence of the fervor with which a truly noble mind may be occupied with the highest interests of his fellow-men, in a moment when he feels himself already at the threshold of another world. " I beg to offer the following resolution : — " Resolved, That the American Academy of Arts and Sciences have sustained, in the death of their late Associate, the Hon. Francis C. Gray, a loss not easily to be supplied. He was a man of vigorous mind, of large and liberal culture, of generous devotion to...
Página 19 - The most loathsome part of the story— the manner in which the body of the sacrificed captive was disposed of— remains yet to be told. It was delivered to the warrior who had taken him in battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet teeming with delicious beverages and delicate viands, prepared with art, and attended by both sexes, who, as we shall see hereafter, conducted themselves...
Página 35 - Clair is some low lands with ponds, where are a few outlying mounds, small and of slight elevation. About two hundred feet of the south end of Mound No. 2 is clear of trees, except on the sides, and is covered with a smooth green turf. Excavations were made in a number of places, showing that this entire end of the mound was covered with a solid crust of black ashes from eighteen inches to two feet thick. So hard and solid was this crust that layers of it in large pieces several inches square and...
Página 26 - I leave in your hands the details and management of the trust; only suggesting, that in view of the gradual obliteration or destruction of the works and remains of the ancient races of this continent, the labor of exploration and collection be commenced at as early a day as practicable : and also that in the event of the discovery in America of human remains or implements of an earlier geological period than the present, especial attention be given to their study and their comparison with those found...
Página 17 - ... bones had a certain amount of method ; the heads of the humerus and femur were detached as if to avoid the trouble, or from ignorance as to the way, of disarticulating the joints. The shafts of these bones, as also those of the forearm and leg, were regularly broken through the middle.
Página 25 - I inclose an instrument giving to you one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), in trust for the foundation and maintenance of a Museum and Professorship of American Archaeology and Ethnology in connection with Harvard University.
Página 7 - John's and its lakes at the present time, that the two small species of shells above mentioned could have been obtained in such vast quantities as are seen brought together in these mounds, unless at the times of their formation the shells existed more abundantly than now, or the collection of them extended through very long periods of time. When it is borne in mind that the shell-heaps afford...
Página 17 - The bones, an account of which has just been given, were not deposited there at an ordinary burial of a dead body. In this case after the decay of the flesh there would have remained a certain order in the position of the parts of the skeleton, especially in the pelvis, the long bones of the limbs, the vertebral column and the head. The bones would be entire as in other burials. In the cases here described, they were, on the contrary, scattered in a disorderly manner, broken into many fragments,...
Página 16 - Mound already described. were all but one chance discoveries. In all but a single instance there was nothing to direct attention to one place rather than another in making excavations, and as these were begun at random it is all but certain that many others escaped detection. It would perhaps be going too far to say that the presence of human bones, under the circumstances above described, amounted to absolute proof of cannibalism. The testimony of eye-witnesses would be the only sure evidence of...
Página 51 - I further direct that the remaining sum of sixty thousand dollars be invested and accumulated as a Building Fund, until it shall amount to at least one hundred thousand dollars, when it may be employed in the erection of a suitable fire-proof museum building, upon land to be given for that purpose, free of cost or rental, by the president and fellows of Harvard College, the building when completed, to become the property of the college...