Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 17American Museum of Natural History, 1907 Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology. |
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Page 306 - In both lower corners within ovals with dark background appears the white numeral "2" and these ovals are connected by a panel bearing the word "Cents" in white Roman letters. The central design is the colonial seal with the figure of an Indian holding a bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right. On either side of the figure is a small pine tree. The years "1630...
Page 47 - Coyote said he would go, but that he was hungry, and wanted some of the food. Ku'ksu replied, "You cannot eat that. Only ghosts may eat that food." Then Coyote went away and told all the people, "I saw my son and Ku'ksu, and he told me to kill myself. " So he climbed up to the top of a tall tree, jumped off and was killed. Then he went to the spirit house, thinking he could now have some of the food; but there was no one there, nothing at all, and so he went out, and walked away to the west, and...
Page 43 - Father-ofthe-Secret-Society sat in its shade for two days. The tree was very large, and had twelve different kinds of acorns growing on it. After they had sat for two days under the tree, they all went off to see the world that Earth-Initiate had made. They started at sunrise, and were back by sunset. EarthInitiate travelled so fast that all they could see was a ball of fire flashing about under the ground and the water. While they were gone, Coyote (Ola'li) and his dog Rattlesnake (Ka'udi or So'la)...
Page 44 - Tomorrow morning you must go to the little lake near here. Take all the people with you. I'll make you a very old man before you get to the lake!' So in the morning Kuksu collected all the people, and went to the lake. By the time he had reached it, he was a very old man. He fell into the lake, and sank down out of sight. Pretty soon the ground began to shake, the waves overflowed the shore, and there was a great roaring under the water, like thunder. By and by Kuksu came up out of the water, but...
Page 42 - Just as Turtle went over the side of the boat, Pehe-ipe began to shout loudly. Turtle was gone a long time. He was gone six years; and when he came up, he was covered with green slime, he had been down so long. When he reached the top of the water, the only earth he had was a very little under his nails: the rest had all washed away. Earth-Initiate took with his right hand a stone knife from under his left armpit, and carefully scraped the earth out from under Tunic's nails.
Page 45 - The people did not know what he meant; but Coyote said, "I'll show you. It is better to have a burning, for then the widows can be free." So he took all the baskets and things that the people had, hung them up on poles, made everything all ready. When all was prepared, Coyote said, "At this time you must always have games.
Page 98 - She went on then, and died before she got out of the valley. The butterfly-man she had lost went on, got through the valley, and came to his home.
Page 118 - Archaeology of Lytton, British Columbia. By Harlan I. Smith Pp. 129-161. pi. xiii, and 117 text figures. May, 1899. Price. $2.00. PART IV.— The Thompson Indians of British Columbia.
Page 118 - Republication of Descriptions of Fossils from the Hall Collection in the American Museum of Natural History, from the report of Progress for 1861 of the Geological Survey of Wisconsin, by James Hall, with Illustrations from the Original Type Specimens not heretofore Figured.
Page 2 - Huasteca, Mexico, by Marshall H. Saville (Vol. XIII, 1900). 6 pp 25 An Onyx Jar from Mexico, in Process of Manufacture, by M. H. Saville (Vol. XIII, 1900). 4 pp., i pi 30 Cruciform Structures near Mitla, by Marshall H.