American Anthropologist, Volumen3

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American Anthropological Association, 1890
 

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Página 215 - Of him who thought to die unmourn'd, 'twill fall Like choicest music ; fill the glazing eye With gentle tears ; relax the knotted hand To know the bonds of fellowship again, And shed on the departing soul a sense More precious than the benison of friends About the honored death-bed of the rich, To him who else were lonely, that another Of the great family is near and feels.
Página 176 - The ORIGIN of CIVILISATION and the PRIMITIVE CONDITION of MAN ; Mental and Social Condition of Savages.
Página 347 - Shortly after we came to this place, the squaws began to make sugar. We had no large kettles with us this year, and they made the frost, in some measure, supply the place of fire, in making sugar. Their large bark vessels, for holding the stock water, they made broad and shallow ; and as the weather is very cold here, it frequently freezes at night in sugar time; and the ice they break and cast out of* the vessels. I asked them if they were not throwing away the sugar. They said no ; it was water...
Página 216 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
Página 109 - When ali was ready, the game began, but at the very outset the flying squirrel caught the ball and carried it up a tree, then threw it to the birds, who kept it in the air for some time, when it dropped ; but just before it reached the ground the bat seized it, and by his dodging and doubling kept it out of the way of even the swiftest of the animals until he finally threw it in at the goal, and thus won the victory for the birds.
Página 54 - Some of these ancient people still dwell in the clouds. They have large, curved beaks, resembling bison humps ; their voices are loud, they do not open their eyes wide except when they make lightning, and they have wings.
Página 346 - The way we commonly used our sugar while encamped was by putting it in bear's fat until the fat was almost as sweet as the sugar itself, and in this we dipped our roasted venison. About this time some of the Indian lads and myself were employed in making and attending traps for catching raccoons...
Página 316 - ... for the insertion of the muscles of the nape. All these peculiarities are more frequent as we descend the scale, whether we regard the lower races of man, microcephalic individuals, or lower animals. Like many of these atavistic features they are also more common among the criminal classes.
Página 305 - There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone • And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Página 310 - The scanty material at hand indicates that a similar transition occurred between the modern and pre-historic types. The approximation of the infantile and simian forms is well known. The pelvis alone does not suffice to support the viscera. In quadrupeds the whole weight is slung from the horizontal spine by means of a strong elastic suspensory bandage of fascia, the tunica abdominalis. The part of this near the thorax has in man entirely disappeared, being no longer of any use. In the groin it remains...

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