Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans
by William Henry Holmes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
- Title
- Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306
- Credits
- Produced by PM for Bureau of American Ethnology, The Internet Archive (American Libraries) and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E011: History: America: America
- Subject
- Indian art
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42564
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42564
- Release Date
- April 20, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ART IN SHELL OF THE ANCIENT AMERICANS.
- 2.[pg 181] CONTENTS.
- 3.[pg 183] ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4.INTRODUCTORY.
- 5.[pg 189] IMPLEMENTS AND UTENSILS. — UNWORKED SHELLS. — VESSELS. — SPOONS. — KNIVES. — CELTS. — SCRAPERS. — [pg 207] AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. — FISHING APPLIANCES. — WEAPONS. — TWEEZERS.
- 6.[pg 213] ORNAMENTS. — PINS. — [pg 219] BEADS. — PERFORATED SHELLS. — DISCOIDAL BEADS. — MASSIVE BEADS. — TUBULAR BEADS. — [pg 228] RUNTEES. — BEADS AS ORNAMENTS. — BEADS AS CURRENCY. — MNEMONIC USE OF BEADS. — [pg 255] PENDANTS. — PERFORATED PLATES. — ENGRAVED GORGETS. — THE CROSS. — SCALLOPED DISKS. — THE BIRD. — THE SPIDER. — THE SERPENT. — THE HUMAN FACE. — THE HUMAN FIGURE.
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