 | Catholic University of America - 1904 - 568 páginas
...exertions, their labors, and their trading, concern almost entirely the amassing of something with which to honor the dead. They have nothing sufficiently...and yet, these are the whole riches of the country." In the same place, the missionary graphically describes for us the "Feast of the Dead." This is so... | |
 | Sara Henry Stites - 1905 - 180 páginas
...exertions, their labors, and their trading, concern almost entirely the amassing of some things with which to honor the dead. They have nothing sufficiently...purpose ; they lavish robes, axes and porcelain ... in quantities . . . and yet these are the whole riches of the country. You will see them often in the... | |
 | Georges E. Sioui - 1999 - 282 páginas
...exertions, their labors, and their trading, concern almost entirely the amassing of something with which to honor the Dead. They have nothing sufficiently...precious for this purpose; they lavish robes, axes, and Porcelain166 in such quantities that, to see them on such occasions, you would judge that they place... | |
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Porcelain in such quantities that, to see them on such occasions, you would judge that they place no value upon them; and yet these are the whole riches of the Country. 