Elephant Pipes and Inscribed Tablets in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Daveport, Iowa

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Glass & Hoover, printers, 1885 - 95 стор.
 

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Сторінка 28 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, "Brutus" will start a spirit as soon as "Caesar.
Сторінка 52 - Elephant Pipes in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Davenport, Iowa, by Charles E.
Сторінка 71 - Putnam," which is a vindication of the authenticity of the elephant pipes and inscribed tablets in the museum of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences from the accusations of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution.
Сторінка 46 - This is proven by the fact that we not unfrequently find them embedded in peat in marshes which are still marshes where they have been mired and suffocated. It is even claimed that here, as on the European continent, man was a cotemporary of the mammoth, and that here as there, he contributed largely to its final extinction.
Сторінка 5 - He was never known voluntarily to engage in an enterprise requiring methodical labor ; he dwells in temporary and movable habitations ; he follows the game in their migrations ; he imposes the drudgery of life upon his squaw ; he takes no heed for the future. To suppose that such a race threw up the strong lines of circumvallation and the symmetrical mounds which crown so many of our river-terraces, is as preposterous, almost, as to suppose that they built the pyramids of Egypt.
Сторінка 31 - ... not this earlier discovery of human remains in the same formation confirm the correctness of those statements? Our country is yet new, and it is only recently that attention has been directed to these investigations. It is hardly to be expected that a competent observer will be present at the precise time when any relic of the past is disinterred ; and there is an universal feeling of doubt and distrust as to the authenticity of all such finds. With the evidence before us that both hemispheres...
Сторінка 39 - The bird is a common crow, or a raven, and is one of the most happily executed of the avian sculptures. The paroquet is treated more kindly, this species having abounded in the Mississippi Valley; but the particular paroquet of Squier and Davis is made to step aside. Passing over the remarks upon various well-known forms and the skill shown in the carving, we come to Mr. Henshaw's attack upon...
Сторінка 6 - ... these mounds. As this search will be the subject of a much more elaborate paper, which will be read before the American association, a summary of it would be out of place here. All that need be said Is that the facts detailed by Mr. Putnam seem to show a more complex social life, more abundant and varied artistic products, and a higher status altogether...
Сторінка 10 - Mound-builders' type, and has every appearance of age and usage. Of its genuineness I have no doubt. Together with the ' elephant mound ' of Wisconsin, the elephant head of Palenque (depicted in Lord Kingsborough's great work), our pipe completes the series of what the French would call ' documents,' proving the fact of the contemporaneous existence on this continent of man and the mastodon.
Сторінка 24 - ... two feet below the elephant remains, and about fourteen feet below the surface of the soil, thus showing the existence of man on the island prior to the deposit in the soil of the fossil elephant. The material consists of the outer bark of the common southern cane (Amndinaria n1acrospenun), and has been preserved for so long a period both by its silicious character and the strongly saline condition of the soil.

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