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Sixth annual report of the Bureau of ethnology. (1888 N 06 / 1884-1885)

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ACCOMPANYING PAPERS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.
INTRODUCTION.
PUBLICATION.
FIELD WORK.
MOUND EXPLORATIONS.
EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST.
LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK.
GENERAL FIELD WORK.
OFFICE WORK.
ACCOMPANYING PAPERS.
ANCIENT ART OF THE PROVINCE OF CHIRIQUI, COLOMBIA, BY WILLIAM H. HOLMES.
A STUDY OF THE TEXTILE ART IN ITS RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORM AND ORNAMENT, BY W. H. HOLMES.
AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE MAYA CODICES, BY CYRUS THOMAS.
OSAGE TRADITIONS, BY REV. J. OWEN DORSEY.
THE CENTRAL ESKIMO, BY DR. FRANZ BOAS.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
ACCOMPANYING PAPERS.
INDEX.

ACCOMPANYING PAPERS.

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ANCIENT ART OF THE PROVINCE OF CHIRIQUI, BY WILLIAM H. HOLMES.
 
Page.
Introduction 13
    Geography 13
    Literature 14
    People 15
    The cemeteries 16
    The graves 17
    Human remains 20
    Placing of relics 21
 
Objects of art 21
    Stone 21
        Pictured rocks 21
        Columns 22
        Images 23
        Mealing stones 25
        Stools 27
        Celts etc. 29
        Spearheads 34
        Arrowpoints 34
        Ornaments 34
    Metal 35
        Gold and copper 35
        Bronze 49
    Clay: Pottery 53
        Preliminary 53
        How found 55
        Material 55
        Manufacture 56
        Color 57
        Use 57
        Forms of vessels 58
        Decoration 62
    Unpainted ware 66
        Terra cotta group 67
        Black incised group 80
    Painted ware 84
        Scarified group 87
        Handled group 90
        Tripod group 97
        Maroon group 107
        Red line group 109
        White line group 111
        Lost color group 113
        Alligator group 130
        Polychrome group 140
        Unclassified 147
    Miscellaneous objects 149
        Spindle whorls 149
        Needlecases 150
        Figurines 151
        Stools 154
      Musical instruments 156
        Rattles 156
        Drums 157
        Wind instruments 160
    Life forms in vase painting 171
Résumé 186
 
A STUDY OF THE TEXTILE ART IN ITS RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORM AND ORNAMENT, BY WILLIAM H. HOLMES.
 
Introduction 195
    Form in textile art 196
    Relations of form to ornament 201
    Color in textile art 201
Textile ornament 202
    Development of a geometric system within the art 202
      Introduction 202
      Relief phenomena 203
        Ordinary features 203
        Reticulated work 210
        Superconstructive features 211
      Color phenomena 215
        Ordinary features 215
        Non-essential constructive features 226
        Superconstructive features 228
        Adventitious features 231
  Geometricity imposed upon adopted elements of design 232
  Extension of textile ornament to other forms of art 244
 
AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE MAYA CODICES, BY CYRUS THOMAS.
 
Introduction 259
Chap. I. The numerals in the Dresden Codex 261
     II. Conclusions 339
    III. The writing 345
          Signification of the characters 347
          Symbols of animals etc 348
          Symbols of deities 358
          Discussion as to phonetic features of the characters 365
 
OSAGE TRADITIONS, BY REV. J. OWEN DORSEY.
 
Introduction 377
Traditions of the elders 381
  Unŭn u¢áʞe. Tsíɔu wactáʞe itáde (Tradition of the Tsíɔu wactáʞe gens) 381
    Translation 388
  Unŭn u¢áʞe. Qü¢ápasan itáde (Tradition of the Bald Eagle subgens) 390
    Translation 394
Concluding remarks 396
 
THE CENTRAL ESKIMO, BY DR. FRANZ BOAS.
 
Introduction 409
    Authorities quoted 410
    Orthography 413
    Geography of northeastern America 413
 
Distribution of the tribes 419
    General observations 419
    Baffin Land 421
        The Sikosuilarmiut 421
        The Akuliarmiut 421
        The Qaumauangmiut 421
        The Nugumiut 422
        The Oqomiut 424
        The Padlimiut and the Akudnirmiut 440
        The Aggomiut 442
        The Iglulirmiut 444
        The Pilingmiut 444
        The Sagdlirmiut 444
    Western shore of Hudson Bay 444
        The Aivillirmiut 445
        The Kinipetu or Agutit 450
        The Sagdlirmiut of Southampton Island 451
        The Sinimiut 451
    Boothia Felix and Back River 452
        The Netchillirmiut 452
        The Ugjulirmiut 458
        The Ukusiksalirmiut 458
    Smith Sound 459
        The natives of Ellesmere Land 459
        The North Greenlanders 460
 
Influence of geographical conditions upon the distribution of the settlements 460
 
Trade and intercourse between the tribes 462
 
List of the Central Eskimo tribes 470
 
Hunting and fishing 471
    Seal, walrus, and whale hunting 471
    Deer, musk ox, and bear hunting 501
    Hunting of small game 510
    Fishing 513
 
Manufactures 516
    Making leather and preparing skins 516
    Sundry implements 523
 
Transportation by boats and sledges 527
    The boat 527
    The sledge and dogs 529
 
Habitations and dress 539
    The house 539
    Clothing, dressing of the hair, and tattooing 554
 
Social and religious life 561
    Domestic occupations and amusements 561
    Visiting 574
    Social customs in summer 576
    Social order and laws 578
    Religious ideas and the angakunirn (priesthood) 583
        Sedna and the fulmar 583
        The tornait and the angakut 591
        The flight to the moon 598
        Kadlu the thunderer 600
    Feasts, religious and secular 600
    Customs and regulations concerning birth, sickness, and death 609
 
Tales and traditions 615
    Ititaujang 615
    The emigration of the Sagdlirmiut 618
    Kalopaling 20
    The Uissuit 621
    Kiviung 621
    The origin of the narwhal 625
    The visitor 627
    The fugitive women 628
    Qaudjaqdjuq 628
        I. Story of the three brothers 628
        II. Qaudjaqdjuq 630
    Igimarasugdjuqdjuaq the cannibal 633
    The Tornit 634
    The woman and the spirit of the singing house 636
    The constellation Udleqdjun 636
    The origin of the Adlet and of the Qadluait 637
    The great flood 637
    Inugpaqdjuqdjualung 638
    The bear story 638
    Sundry tales 639
    Tables relating to animals 641
        The owl and the raven 641
    Comparison between Baffin Land traditions and those of other tribes 641
 
Science and the arts 643
    Geography and navigation 643
    Poetry and music 648
        Merry-making among the Tornit 649
        The lemming's song 650
        Arlum pissinga (the killer's song) 650
       \ \ \  I. Summer song 653
       \ \  II. The returning hunter 653
       \  III. Song of the Tornit 653
       \ \  IV. Song of the Inuit traveling to Nettilling 653
       \ \ \  V. Oxaitoq's song 654
       \ \  VI. Utitiaq's song 654
       \  VII. Song 654
        VIII. Song 654
       \ \  IX. Song of the Tornit 654
       \ \ \  X. The fox and the woman 655
       \ \  XI. The raven's song 655
       \  XII. Song of a Padlimio 655
        XIII. Ititaujang's song 655
       \  XIV. Playing at ball 656
       \ \  XV. Playing at ball 657
       \  XVI.-XIX. Extracts 657, 658
 
Glossary 659
 
Appendix 667
 
INDEX.
 
Index 671

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