04110nam 2200577 a 450 991046554180332120200520144314.00-8173-8249-6(CKB)2560000000079507(EBL)835666(OCoLC)772459653(SSID)ssj0000584979(PQKBManifestationID)11426185(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000584979(PQKBWorkID)10592897(PQKB)10387541(MiAaPQ)EBC835666(MdBmJHUP)muse27112(Au-PeEL)EBL835666(CaPaEBR)ebr10527826(EXLCZ)99256000000007950720090114d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Aborigines of Puerto Rico and neighboring islands[electronic resource] /Jesse Walter FewkesTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20091 online resource (330 p.)Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistoryOriginally 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.0-8173-5574-X 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 facesPriesthoodDivination; Medicine practices; Narcotics; Rites and ceremonies; Ceremony to bring crops; Survival of ceremony in modern dances; Burial ceremonies; Myths; Traditions of origin; A modern legend; The name Borinquen; Archeological sites; Dance plazas; Shell heaps; Caves; Archeological objects; Celts; Enigmatical stones; Pestles; Mortars; Beads and pendants; Stone balls; Three-pointed stones; Type with head on anterior and legs on posterior projection; Type with face between anterior and conoid projection; Type with conoid projection modified into a head; Smooth stones; InterpretationSemicircular stonesStone heads; Disks with human faces; Stone amulets; Pictographs; River pictographs; Cave pictographs; Stone collars; Massive collars; Slender collars; Theories of the use of stone collars; Elbow stones; Knobbed heads; Pillar stones; Large stone idols; Pottery; Shell and bone carvings; Wooden objects; Cassava graters; Dance object; Swallowing-sticks; Ceremonial baton; Idols; Stools; Canoes; Other objects; Gold objects; Basketry and textiles; ConclusionsA 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 oCaribbean Archaeology and EthnohistoryIndians of the West IndiesPuerto RicoElectronic books.Indians of the West Indies972.95/0049839Fewkes Jesse Walter1850-1930.313721MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465541803321The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and neighboring islands2459500UNINA