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Author Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930.

Title The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and neighboring islands / Jesse Walter Fewkes.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009]
©2009
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Description 1 online resource (234 pages, 95 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory series
Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
Note 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.
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.
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Subject Indians of the West Indies -- Puerto Rico.
Indians of the West Indies.
Puerto Rico.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Aborigines of Porto Rico and neighboring islands https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009003930
Other Form: Print version: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930. Aborigines of Porto Rico and neighboring islands. Aborigines of Puerto Rico and neighboring islands. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009 9780817355746 (DLC) 2009001360 (OCoLC)298541471
ISBN 9780817382490 (electronic book)
0817382496 (electronic book)
9780817355746
081735574X

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