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Africa Alaska America ancient Archæology Ashmead basket birds bone boots bored bow drill bronze Bull Bureau of Ethnology California carrying cradle cross crossbars curator Decap Department drill point E. W. Nelson eggs Egyptian Eskimo Example exhibit fastened feet figure Fish foot fossils frame front Gift goggles Greek half hitch heel holes implements inches Indians instep Island ivory Japan lacing lashing leather loops Lotus M. J. Rathbun Mancala material Mexico Moccasins objects ogee ornamented perforated piece Point Barrow pottery Proc Prof pump drill rawhide represented River runners sandal Schliemann sealskin sewed shaft shells shoe side skin Smithsonian Institution snowshoes sole species specimens spindle-whorl stone Swastika thong tion toe string twined U. S. N. M. Collected U. S. Nat U. S. National Museum upper vase visor W. H. Dall Washington weaving wood wooden World's Columbian Exposition XVII
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Сторінка 17 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Сторінка 95 - For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation...
Сторінка 276 - It is true that the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing: all these creatures have been observed to fall its prey.
Сторінка 589 - Among themselves they trade their Come, Skins, Coates, Venison, Fish, and sometimes come ten or twenty in a company to trade amongst the English. They have some who follow onely making of Bowes, some Arrowes, some Dishes (the women make all their Earthen vessells) some follow fishing, some hunting, most on the seaside make money and Store up shells in Summer against Winter whereof to make money."4 Breckenridge remarks that the Louisiana nations have considerable trade or traffic with each other.
Сторінка 993 - PRIME'S POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. Pottery and Porcelain of All Times and Nations. With Tables of Factory and Artists' Marks, for the Use of Collectors. By WILLIAM C. PRIME, LL.D. Illustrated. 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $7 00 ; Half Calf, $9 25. (In a Box.) CESNOLA'S CYPRUS.
Сторінка 18 - Capitol, subject to the right of the Regents to withdraw the books on paying the charges of binding, etc. Owing to the same causes (which have affected the Library of Congress itself) these principal conditions, except as regards their custody in a fire-proof building, have never been fulfilled. The books are still deposited chiefly in the Capitol, but though they have now increased from 40,000 to fully 250,000 volumes and parts of volumes, and form one of the most valuable collections of the kind...
Сторінка 541 - Musemn possesses an example from Madagascar. The Caucasian subspecies in all its branches were familiar with it, and it was only a century ago, when streets were lighted at night sufficiently for carriages, that sedan chairs of most costly patterns went out of vogue. The basterna was a kind of litter with two poles or shafts, in which women were carried in the time of the Roman emperors. It resembled Fig. 228.
Сторінка 93 - Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the US National Museum.
Сторінка 14 - That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging, or hereafter to belong, to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington...
Сторінка 456 - ... miles they stopped to take in their loading, which they had been afraid to trust in the last rapid, and had therefore carried by land from the head of the shoot. After their example, we carried our small canoe and all the baggage across the slippery rocks to the foot of the shoot. The...