Annual Report, Volym 1Damrell and Upham, 1880 The 3d-5th reports include annual reports of the committee on the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1881/82-1883/84. |
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Sida 35 - Indians that came with us were placed over against us; this cabin is about 80 feet long, and 17 broad, the common passage 6 feet wide; and the apartments on each side 5 feet, raised a foot above the passage by a long sapling hewed square, and fitted with joists that go from it to the back of the house ; on these joists they lay large pieces of bark, and on extraordinary occasions...
Sida 41 - ... a single house, because the whole is under one roof; otherwise it would seem more like a range of buildings, as it is divided into seven distinct apartments, each thirty feet square, by means of broad boards set on end from the floor to the roof.
Sida 17 - ... upon such discoveries as this." ' Such has been the work of the past year. The work to be prosecuted during the coming year must depend in great measure upon the means provided for it by the members of the Institute, and by con1 "Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria," second edition, 1878, vol. I. p. 183. Mr. Dennis is speaking of discoveries at Castel d'Asso. tributions of individuals interested in archaeological studies. Relying upon being supplied with what may be required for undertakings worthy...
Sida 52 - The room was fifteen feet by ten; the walls were made of adobes; the partitions of substantial beams; the floor laid with clay. In one corner were a fireplace and chimney. Everything was clean and tidy. Skins, bows and arrows, quivers, antlers, blankets, articles of clothing and ornament, were hanging from the walls or arranged upon shelves. Vases, flat dishes, and gourds filled with meal or water were standing along one side of the room. At the other end was a trough divided into compartments, in...
Sida 32 - I 11 1 other gentes ; consequently, \hz gens or clan of the mother predominated in numbers in the household, descent being in the female line. Whatever was taken in the hunt, or raised by cultivation by any member of the household, was for the common benefit. Provisions were held as common stock within the household. Thelroquoishad but one cooked meal each day, — a dinner. Eachhousehold, in the matter of the management of their food, was under the care of a matron. When the daily meal had been...
Sida 75 - Battery, made a poor show for a city. The most credulous reader would readily perceive that it was a misnomer to call them the ruins of a city; wherefore the suggestions of Mr. Stephens, that "considering the space now occupied by the ruins as the site of palaces, temples, and public buildings, and supposing the houses of the inhabitants * * * of frail and perishable materials to have disappeared * * * the city may have covered an immense extent.
Sida 6 - Societies, is formed for the purpose of promoting and directing archaeological investigation and research, — by sending out expeditions for special investigation, by aiding the efforts of independent explorers, by publication of archaeological papers, and of reports of the results of the expeditions which the Institute may undertake or promote, and by any other means which may from time to time appear desirable.
Sida 27 - A study of the houses of the American aborigines; with suggestions for the exploration of the ruins in New Mexico, Arizona, the valley of the San Juan, and in Yucatan and Central America.
Sida 72 - Their community consists of a hundred labradores, or working men; their lands are held and wrought in common, and the products are shared by all. Their food is prepared at one hut, and every family sends for its portion, which explains a singular spectacle we had seen on our arrival, a procession of women and children, each carrying an earthen bowl containing a quantity of smoking hot broth, all coming down the same road, and disappearing among the different huts.
Sida 44 - They have no cotton wool growing, because the country is cold, yet they wear mantles thereof, as your honor may see by the show thereof; and true it is that there was found in their houses certain yarn made of cotton wool...