1903 MOUND BUILDERS, ARCHAEOLOGY, AMERICAN INDIAN ARTIFACTS RELICS, CYRUS THOMAS

Description: 1903 MOUND BUILDERS, ARCHAEOLOGY, AMERICAN INDIAN ARTIFACTS RELICS, CYRUS THOMAS Click images to enlarge Description THIS IS A VERY SCARCE AND HARD TO FIND BOOK Introduction To The Study of North American Archaeology BY PROF. CYRUS THOMAS, Author of "Report on Mound Explorations" (Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology); "Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains"; "A Study of the Manuscript Troano"; "Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States"; "Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices"; "Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts"; "Problem of the Ohio Mounds"; "The Cherokees in Pre-Columbian Times"; etc. CINCINNATI: THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY. 1903 HARDCOVER 391 PAGES WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS THIS BOOK IS COMPLETE, CLEAN AND IN VERY GOOD + CONDITION... PLEASE SEE PICTURES CONTENTS. Preliminary Observations — Page The object, scope and plan of the work ..... 1 Materials for Study and Classification ..... 8 Methods of Study ..... 22 Arctic Division — Monuments and local antiquities ..... 35 Implements, ornajnents, etc. ..... 40 Culture home of the Eskimo ...... 43 Atlantic Division ..... 48 Monuments and local antiquities ..... 50 Mounds ..... 51 Burial mounds ..... 61 Vessels, implements and ornaments ..... 70 Pottery ..... 87 Long-necked bottles ..... 94 The gulf province ..... 97 Pipes .... 98 Articles of shell ..... 103 Textile fabrics ..... 108 Copper articles ..... 109 Articles of stone ..... 113 Inclosures and pyramidal mounds ... 117 Prehistoric movements of population ..... 121 Hut-rings and house-sites ..... 132 Antiquity and authors of the mounds ..... 138 Duration of the mound-building age .... 147 Inclosures and other mural works .... 152 Pacific Division ..... 169 North Pacific section — Athapascan region ..... 170 North Pacific coast .... 176 California section ..... 187 Prehistoric movements of population ..... 200 Intermontane or pueblo section. .... 203 Cave-dwellings .... 205 Cliff-dwellings .... 208 Ruins on the plateaus and in the valleys .... 215 Gila valley and Chihuahua ..... 221 Builders of the cliff-houses .... 229 Mexican section — civilization .... 233 Monuments of southern Mexico .... 252 Monuments of southern Mexico— continued .... 264 Monuments of Central America .... 276 Chichen-Itza, Tikal and Copan ... 296 Migrations of the Mexican and Central American tribes .... 312 Migrations of certain Mayau tribes ". .... 328 Origin and development of Central American civilization. .... 339 Priests, hieroglyphs and calendar .... 356 Conclusion .... 368 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 1. Bone spear head, Eskimo. .... 37 '2. Stone lamp, Eskimo. .... 37 3. Labret, Eskimo. .... 38 4. Remains of an ancient Eskimo house. .... 39 5. Ulu, or woman's knife, Eskimo, .... 41 6. Soapstone pot, Eskimo. .... 42 7. Hafted jade adze, Eskimo. .... 42 8. Skin scraper, Eskimo. .... 43 9. Flint flaker, Eskimo. ( Murdoch.) .... 43 10. Plat of mound group, Wisconsin, .... 52 11. Terraced mound, Arkansas. .... 54 12. Elephant mound, Wisconsin. .... 56 13. Group of chain mounds, Wisconsin. (Thomas.) .... 57 14. Section of Mississippi mound. .... 63 15. Section of mound in eastern Tennessee. .... 66 16. Earthern pot, eastern Tennessee. (Thomas. ) .... 67 17. Shell ear ornament or hair pin, North Carolina. .... 67 18. Engraved shell, North Carolina. .... 68 19. Soapstone pipe, east Tennessee. .... 68 20. Beehive vaults, North Carolina. .... 69 21. Soapstone pipe, North Carolina. .... 70 22. Stone-grave cemetery. Illinois, .... 72 23. Triangular pit, North Carolina. (Thomas.) 80 24. Position of skeletons in an east Tennessee mound. ..... 85 25. Copper hawk's-bell, east Tennessee. .... 86 26. Clay vessel, Canada, .... 88 27. Outline figures of bowls. (Holmes.) .... 89 28. Ornamental bowl, Tennessee. (Thruston.) .... 89 29. Animal-shaped bowl, Arkansas. (Holmes.) .... 90 30. Bird-shapsd bowl, Arkansas. .... 90 31. Pot-shaped vessel, Arkansas. .... 91 32. Pot-shaped vessel, west Tennessee. .... 91 33. Wide-mouthed bottles. .... 92 34. (a) Oppossum vase, Arkansas. .... 92 (b) Sunfish vase, Arkansas. .... 93 35. Bowl representing the human head, Arkansas. .... 93 36. Winged and crested rattlesnake design, Ark. .... 94 37. Outline figures of long-necked bottles. .... 94 38. Eccentric shapes in long-necked bottles. (Holmes.) 94 39. Owl-shaped bottle, east Tennessee. .... 95 40. Burial urn, Georgia..... 97 41. Vessel with four legs, Georgia. (Jones.) 97 42. (a and b) Stemless pipes. (Boyle.) 99 43. Image pipe, Georgia. ..... 99 44. Image pipe, Arkansas. .... 100 45. (a, b and c) Short-necked pipes..... 100 46. " Monitor " pipe 101 47. Engraved shell, Arkansas. .... 104 48. Shell gorget, Tennessee. (Jones.) 106 49. Shell gorget, Georgia. .... 106 50. Figured copper plate, Georgia. .... 111 51. Figured copper plate, Illinois. .... 112 52. Figured copper plate, Illinois. .... 112 53. Stone image, Tennessee. .... 114 54. Stone image, Tennessee. .... 114 55. Bannerstones .... 115 56. Arrowheads. ( Mercer.) 116 57. Mound with graded way, Georgia. .... 118 58. Double terraced mound, Arkansas. .... 119 59. Selsertown mound, Mississippi. .... 120 60. Newark works, Ohio..... 122 61. " Hill Fort," Ohio. .... 128 62. Linn works, Illinois. .... 128 63. "Angel mounds,"' Indiana. ..... 130 64. House site, Arkansas. .... 134 65. Supposed method of lathing houses. .... 135 66. Surface effigy, South Dakota. .... 149 67. Dene stone war club, British America. ( Morice. ) 173 68. Stone war club, Colorado. ( Wickersharn.) 173 69. North-west coast pictograph. .... 178 70. Ceremonial dress of Chilkat chief, north-west coast. (Niblack.) 178 71. Totem posts of north-west coast..... 179 72. Relics from southern California. .... 188 73. Manner of walling up the front of a cave-dwelling. .... 207 74. Cliff-dwelling on the Rio Mancos. .... 210 75. Ruins at Aztec Springs. ..... 216 76. Village group, Arizona. (Mindeleff.) 218 77. Ground plan of the Pueblo Bonito. (Jackson.) 219 78. Ground plan of Casas Grandes. ( Bandelier. ) 224 79. Ground plan of a building at Casas Grandes. (Bartlett.) .... 228 80. Mayan day symbols .... 242 81. Mexican day symbols .... 242 82. Part of the inscription of the Tablet of the Cross, Palen- que. .... 246 83. Pyramid at Los Edificios .... 254 84. Sculptured column, Tula ..... 257 85. Ruins of Teotihuacan. .... 260 86. Ground plan of Teotihuacan building. .... 261 87. Ruins of the temple of Xochicalco. (Nadaillac: "L'Am. Prehist." ) .... 265 88. Ruins at Mitla. .... 269 89. Room with columns, Mitla. .... 271 90. Fretwork in the grand palace, Mitla. .... 272 91. Painted designs, Mitla. .... 273 92. Plan of the ruins at Palenque. .... 278 93. Ground plan of the palace, Palenque. .... 279 94. Cross-section of palace, Palenque. .... 280 95. Part of Palenque palace restored 281 96. Ground plans of Temples at Palenque. .... 282 97. Sculptured lintel, Lorillard City. .... 286 98. Plan of ruins at Uxmal. .... 289 99. Ornamentation on the governor's palace, Uxmal. .... 290 100. Section of the Casa del Gobernador..... 292 101. Ornamentation on the nun's palace, Uxmal. ..... 293 102. Ground plan of nunnery, Chichen-Itza. .... 298 103. Elephant trunk figure, Yucatan 299 104. Vertical section of the Caracol, or tower, Chichen-Itza. .... 299 105. Ground plan of the tower, Chichen-Itza. ... 300 106. Atlantean figure, Chichen-Itza. (Holmes .) ... 301 107. Ground plan of ruins, Copan. (Maudslay.) .... 308 108. 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