In other instances the literation in the aboriginal language of the nonesoteric songs and stories and their translation is necessary to comprehend the devices by which they are memorized rather than symbolized.
Amongst many of the aboriginal tribes of China, a great festival is celebrated in the third month of every year.
An aboriginalwho stood by told me he was looking for the ghosts of dead men.
Some of the aboriginal tribes of China, as a protection against pestilence, select a man of great muscular strength to act the part of scapegoat.
Harkness, Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills, p.
Whether they expanded at the expense of weak aboriginal tribes or were conquered by more robust invaders, Chinese civilization prevailed and assimilated alike the conquered and the conquerors.
An argument for the aboriginal connexion of comets with the solar system, founded by R.
While upon the subject of morality, it may be well to glance at the aboriginal customs concerning divorce.
Long before the dawn of the last century, the aboriginal woman had lost all little power that had once been hers.
Of the North American aboriginal woman the knowledge possessed admits of but broad generalities as to her status and condition.
The condition of the aboriginal woman before the advent of the white race was not that to which she fell as the consequence of that advent.
They appear to have been aboriginal inhabitants before the Hindu invasion.
He also described and gave measurements of the Casa Grande proper and discusses its place in the field of aboriginal architecture.
The building was constructed by crude methods, thoroughly aboriginal in character, and there is no uniformity in its measurements.
The methods employed in the construction of the buildings of the Casa Grande were thoroughly aboriginal and characteristically rude in application.
There the acquisition of the horse and the possession of firearms had wrought very great changes in aboriginal habits.
At all events, it is in California and Oregon, a region where agriculture was scarcely practiced at all, that the most dense aboriginal population lived.
This magnificent mass was accidentally discovered by an educated aboriginal in the service of Dr.
Fergusson concludes that they were the aboriginal inhabitants of Malwa, to whom came the Hindus as conquerors or missionaries (or both?
It is an elevated and eligible plain, which had before been the site of an Indian, or aboriginal settlement.
It was evident the aboriginal race possessed distinctive general rights, but these existed contemporaneously, or intermixed with the rights of the discoverers.
The aboriginal language abounds with stories related by this remarkable personage, which we hope to bring before the public at some future time.
In this way, their combinations, efforts and power, would better appear, and redound more to the credit of the aboriginal actors, as warriors and heroes.
It seems singular, that the farther north we go, the greater evidences do we behold of imagination, in the aboriginal race, together with some fore-shadowings of future punishment.
I have not space to notice one or two additional traits, which serve to awaken new interest at this ancient point of aboriginal and apparently mixed settlement, and must omit them till my next.
And such were, also, with reduced means of action, numbers of the American aboriginal chiefs, who, between the days of Manco Capac and Micanopy have figured in the history of the western world.
Those of the aboriginalrace who excel in private conversation, become to their tribes oral chroniclers, and are relied on for historical traditions as well as tales.
To my mind, the skin canoe of these Northern aborigines is, with its hunting implements, one of the most complete and ingenious manifestations of intelligence to be found in any aboriginal tribe.
The strength and capacity for enduring hardships exhibited by this people is extraordinary and is not, I believe, exceeded by that shown by any other aboriginal race now in existence.
The Soudanese are of many tribes, but two main races can be clearly distinguished: the aboriginal natives, and the Arab settlers.
They also manufacture, according to their aboriginal art, both for their own consumption, and for the purpose of traffic, a species of earthenware not much inferior to the coarse crockery of our common potters.
The Pueblo Indians still cling to many features of aboriginal worship.
No aboriginal nation or people has ever yet been discovered, to my knowledge, which has not professed to have a mysterious ancestry of a mythical character.
The dress of many of the Pueblos has become assimilated in some respects to that of the common Mexicans; but by far the greatest portion still retain most of their aboriginal costume.
In burials, the civilized Choctaws follow the customs of the whites, but the ruder classes still preserve their aboriginal usages.
The aliment of these Indians is, in most respects, similar to that of the Mexicans; in fact, as has been elsewhere remarked, the latter adopted with their utensils numerous items of aboriginal diet.
But these are now only practised by the ruder portions of the border nations and the less improved tribes; among whom may still be witnessed frequently their genuine aboriginal frolics.
The legitimate wampum is only of shells, and was of aboriginal manufacture; being small long tubes with an ovate surface, or sometimes simply cylindrical; and handsomely polished: but imitations of glass or porcelain seem now the most common.
To the aboriginal man every person and object presents itself as either doing or suffering something, every quality and attribute as something which is taking place or existing.
All the wealth and prosperity of this well-watered and fertile corner of India have been poured into their lap, and the lower castes and aboriginal races have been their devoted serfs.
Frequently theaboriginal tribes united to attack the lonely farm-house and murder all its inhabitants.
The allusion to the semi-aboriginal tribe who earn their livelihood by streaking the dead, brought a frown this time to Am-ma's face.
So this question of the canal was in the mind of the naked man, attired in the complete suit of blue beads which marks an aboriginal race, who, in the dawn following, squatted on the highest curve of the spit.
None wrote or spoke at present of our duties to the aboriginal savages, or probably wasted a thought on the subject of their conversion.
Still we were determined to enjoy ourselves, and forward we went, crunching knee deep through aboriginal leaves, hoping to reach some spot less perfectly airtight than our landing-place.
Whether these remains indicate merely the former presence of an aboriginal fossil collector, or whether they played some functional role, will never be known to us.
No further indication of aboriginal habitation could be discovered in the near vicinity.
He studied the aboriginal monuments of New York, and afterwards travelled and made extensive archaeological researches in Central America.
Madame Pfeiffer penetrated the Brazilian forests, and thus describes the aboriginal savages.
