The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 11Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1882 |
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aboriginal Andaman Andamanese Angamis animals Anthropological appear Arabs arrow-heads Asiatic Avars bamboo believe bones Broca Bulgarians called Cape Flats celts chalcedony chert Chinese chips coast collection Colony cord Croats custom Danube death deposits described district doubt E. B. Tylor east Emperor envoy European evidence feet flakes flint Gauchos gravel hair head Heung-noo hills Hottentots Imperial inches Indian island Jiresek Kaffir Keu-sze king kingdom Krum Kubrat large number latter Malagasy Marquis mentioned Museum Nagas Natal natives necklaces neolithic Nicobarese occur Omortag origin ornamented Pannonia paper pieces Pitt Rivers Plate pottery present probably Protector quartz race remarks Roman round sand Schafarik scrapers seen Semitic sent shells side Simeon similar skulls Society South Africa spear specimens spirits stone implements Stritter surface Thrace Town traces trachytic trepanning tribes valley vertebræ village Wang Mang weapons Woo-sun
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Seite 398 - Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Commonwealth for the year ending December 31, 1880.
Seite 356 - ... frequently occurred. More than once the men declared in the morning that some absent man, whom they named, had come during the night, and had beaten, or otherwise maltreated them; and they insisted on much rubbing of the bruised parts of their bodies.
Seite 356 - Macusi, though better in health, was so enraged against me that he refused to stir, for he declared that, with great want of consideration for his weak health, I had taken him out during the night and had made him haul the canoe up a series of difficult cataracts. Nothing could persuade him that this was but a dream...
Seite 361 - The Indian does not see any sharp line of distinction, such as we see, between man and other animals, between one kind of animal and another, or between animals — man included — and inanimate objects. On the contrary, to the Indian all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they differ in the accident of bodily form.
Seite 476 - Director, read the following report:— REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FOR 1881.
Seite 279 - They set no fixed value on their various properties, and rarely make or procure anything for the express purpose of bartering with it. Iron pointed tools and Dentalium octogonum ornaments are in great request with the eremtdga(da), who gladly give in exchange such things as are more easily obtained by them than by the dry6to(da).
Seite 118 - ... line north-easterly and southwesterly, in which respect they resemble the Hurlers at St. Cleer, Cornwall, which are also three circles in a bent line running in a north-easterly and south-westerly direction, the largest, as at Stanton Drew, being in the centre. The diameter of the southwestern circle is about 145 feet, and the distance from its centre to the centre of the great circle about 710 feet. Hauteville's Quoit is about 1,850 feet from the centre of the great circle. About 3,300 feet...
Seite 304 - President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the last ordinary meeting were read and confirmed. The following list of presents was read, and the thanks of the meeting voted to the respective donors :— FOR THE LIBRARY.
Seite 75 - In Mallicollo we observed that the greater part of the skulls of the inhabitants had a very singular conformation ; for the forehead from the beginning of the nose, together with the rest of the head, was much depressed and declining backwards, which causes an appearance in the looks and countenances of the natives similar to those of monkeys. Whether the inhabitants use some art to give the heads of their children this figure, or whether it be owing to some other cause, or to an original defect...
Seite 193 - Such collections must be made upon a far larger scale than has hitherto been attempted, as, owing to the difficulties already pointed out in the classification of man, it is only by large numbers that the errors arising from individual peculiarities or accidental admixture can be obviated, and the prevailing characteristics of a race or group truly ascertained. It is only in an institution commanding the resources of the nation that such a collection can be formed, and it may therefore be confidently...