| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages, 95 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Series |
Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory series |
|
Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
|
| Contents |
Introduction; 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 |
| Summary |
A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico. Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing "more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the West Indies." Until that time, for mainly political reasons, little scientific research had been conducted by Americans on any of the Caribbean islands. Dr. Fewkes' unique skills of observation and experienc |
| Notes |
Originally published in 1907 as one of two papers accompanying the 25th annual report of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of the West Indies -- Puerto Rico.
|
|
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
|
|
Indians of the West Indies
|
|
Puerto Rico
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2009001360 |
| ISBN |
9780817382490 |
|
0817382496 |
|
