The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, Volume 12Stephen Denison Peet F.H. Reveell, 1890 |
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A. E. Douglass Adams County altar America ancient animals archæologists B. H. Hodgson bird bluff bones builders built burial mounds called canon cave circle cliff Cliff-dwellers conical mounds connection contained Creek Dakotas described diameter discovered discovery dolmens dwellings earth earth-works east Editor American Antiquarian effigy mounds embodied evidence explorers fact feet high figures flint Florida gold head implements inches Indians interesting Lake Mancos menhirs mesa Mexico miles modern monuments Mound-builders mountains native Ohio origin ornaments paleolithic peculiar pipes pottery prehistoric Prof pueblos race region relics remarkable resemblance ridge River rock ruins sacred says seems serpent effigy serpent symbol serpent worship shape shell heaps side specimens square standing stones stone graves story structures sun worship symbols T. W. Rhys Davids tamahnous tion totems Translated tribes tumulus valley village enclosures walls Wisconsin
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Page 149 - in entering the ancient avenue for the " first time, the visitor does not fail to experience a sensation of awe, " such as he might feel in passing the portals of an Egyptian temple, " or in gazing upon the silent ruins of Petra of the desert.
Page 313 - Divine goodness, his manifestation upon earth, his death, his resurrection, and his subsequent office as judge of the dead in a future state, look, says Wilkinson, like the early revelation of a future manifestation of the Deity converted into a mythological fable.
Page 268 - when the young women are fit for marriage, they wear something on their heads for an advertisement, but so as their faces are hardly to be seen, but when they please." (Harvey's History of the Shawnees, p. 14, Cincinnati, 1855.) While there is nothing to imply that the "something...
Page 216 - ... of serenity, the greatest restrainer of sadness, in behalf of the Britons, speedily throws round his hall the stream of the Rainbow, a stream which scares away violence from the earth, and causes the bane of its former state, round the circle of the world, to subside.
Page 220 - ... are recognized at first glance. But the most interesting and valuable in the list, are a number of sculptured human heads, no doubt faithfully representing the predominant physical features of the ancient people by whom they were made. We have this assurance in the minute accuracy of the other sculptures of the same date...
Page 37 - When a great man died, he was placed on his favourite seat, food and drink were arranged before him, his weapons were placed by his side, his house was closed, and the door covered up ; sometimes, however, to be opened again when his wife or children joined him in the laud of spirits.
Page 121 - Scandinavians may have reached the shores of Labrador; the soil of the United States has not one vestige of their presence.
Page 141 - Near the south wall is another elevated square, 150 feet by 120, and 8 feet high, similar to the other, excepting that instead of an ascent to go up on the side next the wall, there is a hollow way 10 feet wide, leading 20 feet towards the centre, and then rising with a gradual slope to the top.
Page 212 - The mound is situated on a grassy plain. The tail of the serpent rests near the shore of Loch Nell, and the mound gradually rises seventeen to twenty feet in height, and is continued for three hundred feet, forming a double curve like a huge letter S, and wonderfully perfect in anatomical outline. This we perceive the more perfectly on reaching the head, which lies at the western end. . . . ' The head forms a circular cairn, on which at the time of Mr.
Page 70 - ... as it now is to rule the day, and condemned the moon to shine at night. This tradition differs only a little from one given in Eells on the Twanas. He created man out of the ground and a woman out of his rib and gave them a good land, telling them they might eat of all the fruit except one kind of berries. But the woman, tempted by the king of evil spirits, Skwai-il, ate of those berries, and when Dokibatt came he said, "Have you been eating of those berries!