ANCIENT ART OF THE PROVINCE OF CHIRIQUI, BY WILLIAM H. HOLMES. |
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Introduction | 13 |
Geography | 13 |
Literature | 14 |
People | 15 |
The cemeteries | 16 |
The graves | 17 |
Human remains | 20 |
Placing of relics | 21 |
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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 |
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A STUDY OF THE TEXTILE ART IN ITS RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORM AND ORNAMENT, BY WILLIAM H. HOLMES. |
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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 |
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AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE MAYA CODICES, BY CYRUS THOMAS. |
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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 |
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OSAGE TRADITIONS, BY REV. J. OWEN DORSEY. |
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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 |
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THE CENTRAL ESKIMO, BY DR. FRANZ BOAS. |
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Introduction | 409 |
Authorities quoted | 410 |
Orthography | 413 |
Geography of northeastern America | 413 |
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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 |
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Influence of geographical conditions upon the distribution of the settlements | 460 |
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Trade and intercourse between the tribes | 462 |
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List of the Central Eskimo tribes | 470 |
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Hunting and fishing | 471 |
Seal, walrus, and whale hunting | 471 |
Deer, musk ox, and bear hunting | 501 |
Hunting of small game | 510 |
Fishing | 513 |
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Manufactures | 516 |
Making leather and preparing skins | 516 |
Sundry implements | 523 |
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Transportation by boats and sledges | 527 |
The boat | 527 |
The sledge and dogs | 529 |
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Habitations and dress | 539 |
The house | 539 |
Clothing, dressing of the hair, and tattooing | 554 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Glossary | 659 |
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Appendix | 667 |
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INDEX. |
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Index | 671 |