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Page 30
... bodies have been discovered , interred in a sitting posture in baskets made of cane , the hip joints dislocated , and the legs brought up close to the body . One of them was a male and the other a female . Great care had manifestly been ...
... bodies have been discovered , interred in a sitting posture in baskets made of cane , the hip joints dislocated , and the legs brought up close to the body . One of them was a male and the other a female . Great care had manifestly been ...
Page 31
... bodies are being continually disin- terred from the earth within them , and more than a hundred human skulls have been counted in one cave , within a space of twenty feet square . † With regard to the color of the hair observed upon ...
... bodies are being continually disin- terred from the earth within them , and more than a hundred human skulls have been counted in one cave , within a space of twenty feet square . † With regard to the color of the hair observed upon ...
Page 36
... bodies of water . With one doubtful exception , none have been found between the ancient beaches of Lakes Erie and Ontario and their present shores , though many of them run parallel with the former line of the lakes , —a circumstance ...
... bodies of water . With one doubtful exception , none have been found between the ancient beaches of Lakes Erie and Ontario and their present shores , though many of them run parallel with the former line of the lakes , —a circumstance ...
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... bodies , or rather over the ashes of the dead , as beneath them were ashes , calcined bones , and char- red wood , enclosed in a grave formed of flat pieces of stone . These mounds were thirty - six feet in diameter , but only three in ...
... bodies , or rather over the ashes of the dead , as beneath them were ashes , calcined bones , and char- red wood , enclosed in a grave formed of flat pieces of stone . These mounds were thirty - six feet in diameter , but only three in ...
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... bodies of idols . * Indeed obsidian knives , arrows , and terra cotta heads , abound in this vicinity . The heads have a physiognomical appearance somewhat unlike that of the present Indians , being remarkable for the height and ...
... bodies of idols . * Indeed obsidian knives , arrows , and terra cotta heads , abound in this vicinity . The heads have a physiognomical appearance somewhat unlike that of the present Indians , being remarkable for the height and ...
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