Aborigines of the West Indies
Author | : Frederick Albion Ober |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Indians of the West Indies |
ISBN | : |
Download Aborigines of the West Indies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Aborigines Of The West Indies PDF full book. Access full book title Aborigines Of The West Indies.
Author | : Frederick Albion Ober |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Indians of the West Indies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederick A. Ober |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2017-11-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780331882513 |
Excerpt from Aborigines of the West Indies A neglected field of scientific research, yet lying adjacent to and between the two great continents of America, is that comprising the vast collection of islands known as the West Indies. Although containing the first islands discovered by Columbus, and including the seas first traversed by Spanish ships, in the New World, it was many years before the actual condition and population of those islands was made known to the civilized world. Even' now, less, per haps, is known respecting them than of many portions of lands considered as unexplored. N 0 longer ago than 1878, I had the pleasure of discovering some twenty species of birds, which had until that time rested in obscurity, unknown and undescribed, and of sending to the Unit d States the first collection of aboriginal implements used by the Caribs of the Lesser Antilles. The West Indies are divided, as is well known, into the Greater and Lesser Antilles, the former comprising the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo or Haiti, and Puerto Rico, to which we may add the Ms the latter, that crescent-shaped archipelago called the Caribbean Chain, connecting the larger islands with the continent of South America. These, again, are locally divided into Windward and Leeward, with reference to their situation respecting the prevailing trade-winds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Frederick Albion Ober |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederick a. (Frederick Albion) 1. Ober |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781360052380 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Jesse Walter Fewkes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Indians of the West Indies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Edwin Duerden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Indians of the West Indies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. A. Bullbrook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Arawak Indians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edith Blake |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2016-05-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781533172860 |
Had those islands any aborigines when discovered by Europeans? If there were natives, do any of them remain? The West Indies, or Antilles, consist of many hundreds, or even-reckoning keys or very small islands-several thousand islands varying in area from those which, like Cuba and Jamaica, number their square acres by the million, to the tiny key of half an acre or less. The greater number of these-indeed, all capable of supporting a population, with the exception of Barbados- contained inhabitants when first discovered. Barbados, though containing numerous evidences of former occupation, was uninhabited when taken possession of by its first European settlers, the English...
Author | : Linda A. Newson |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jesse Walter Fewkes |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2009-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081735574X |
A 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 of observation and experience served him well in the quest to understand Caribbean prehistory and culture. This volume, the result of his careful fieldwork in Puerto Rico in 1902-04, is magnificently illustrated by 93 plates and 43 line drawings of specimens from both public and private collections of the islands. A 1907 article in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland described the volume as “a most valuable contribution to ethnographical science.”