The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and neighboring islands
| 1. Verfasser: |
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2009.
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| Umfang/Format: |
234 pages, 95 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
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| ISBN: | 9780817355746 081735574X 9780817382490 0817382496 |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Physical features of Porto Rico
- Precolumbian population
- Present descendants of the Porto Rican Indians
- Race and kinship
- Bodily characteristics
- Mental and moral characteristics
- Government
- Political divisions
- Houses
- Thatched with grasses
- Thatched with palm leaves
- With palm leaves on walls, and straw-thatched roofs
- With slabs of palm wood on walls
- Secular customs
- Naming children; marriage customs
- Hunting and fishing
- Agriculture
- Religion
- Zemiism
- Zemis of wood
- Zemis of stone
- Zemis of cotton cloth inclosing bones
- Zemis painted on their bodies and faces
- Priesthood
- Divination
- Medicine practices
- Narcotics
- Rites and ceremonies
- Ceremony to bring crops
- Survival of ceremony in modern dances
- Burial ceremonies
- Myths
- Traditions of origin
- A modern legend
- The name Borinquen
- Archeological sites
- Dance plazas
- Shell heaps
- Caves
- Archeological objects
- Celts
- Enigmatical stones
- Pestles
- Mortars
- Beads and pendants
- Stone balls
- Three-pointed stones
- Type with head on anterior and legs on posterior projection
- Type with face between anterior and conoid projection
- Type with conoid projection modified into a head
- Smooth stones
- Interpretation
- Semicircular stones
- Stone heads
- Disks with human faces
- Stone amulets
- Pictographs
- River pictographs
- Cave pictographs
- Stone collars
- Massive collars
- Slender collars
- Theories of the use of stone collars
- Elbow stones
- Knobbed heads
- Pillar stones
- Large stone idols
- Pottery
- Shell and bone carvings
- Wooden objects
- Cassava graters
- Dance object
- Swallowing-sticks
- Ceremonial baton
- Idols
- Stools
- Canoes
- Other objects
- Gold objects
- Basketry and textiles.
