BulletinU.S. Government Printing Office, 1894 |
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Términos y frases comunes
11 Ahau 11 Caban 11 Chicchan 11 Chuen 11 Cimi 11 Ezanab 11 months 12 Lamat 12 Manik 13 Akbal 13 Cauac 13 Muluc 13 Ymix 16 days 9 Ahau 9 Akbal 9 Cib 9 Cimi 9 Eb 9 Ezanab 9 Lamat 9 Manik Abau Ahan Ahau 10 Ymix Ahau 12 Ahau 9 Akbal 13 Caban 13 Caban 2 Ezanab Caban 3 Ezanab calendar system Canac Cauac Cauac 12 Cauac 3 Ahau Chicchan 13 Cimi Chuen 11 Cib 1 Caban Cimi 11 Cimi 3 Manik Cimi 9 codices column of plate commencing Cumhu dominical letter Dresden codex Ezanab 13 Ezanab 8 Cauac Kayab Kulua Manik 10 Lamat Manik 12 Manik 9 Maya Maya calendar Maya Codices months and 16 Muan Muluc 12 Oc Oc 2 Chuen Palenque Pamunkey Indians Pamunkey river plate 46 Powhatan confederacy tribe Tzec Tzoz vigesimal Ymix 11 Ymix 9
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Página 9 - The latter records were at one time numerous, probably every village being supplied with one and the name of the village being added to the title; but by far the greater part have disappeared. The earliest were composed before the close of the sixteenth century: many were added during the seventeenth century; but most were written during tbe later half of the eighteenth century.
Página 46 - It is curious to note how the dominical letter [of the year] always comes up at the beginning of its year, without mistake or failing, and that none of the other twenty letters appears. They also used this method of counting- in order to derive from certain letters a. method of counting their epochs and other things, which, though interesting to them, does not concern us much here.
Página 59 - ... to assume from these facts that it was not gradually developed from a simpler form. Where is this bud, this germ to be found? Notwithstanding the derision such propositions usually encounter, I present briefly some reasons for believing that we must look beyond the borders of our continent for it. The special features of this calendar (though not all peculiar to it) are as follows: The division of the year into 18 months of 20 days, each day of the...
Página 18 - Fresh- water mussels, flesh as well as shell, having been burnt and ground up, are mixed with the clay prepared as above, and the two are then saturated with water and kneaded together. This substance is then shaped with a mussel shell to the form of the article desired and placed in the sun and dried; then shaped with a mussel shell and rubbed with a stone for the purpose of producing a gloss. The dishes, bowls, jars, etc., as the case may be, are then placed in a circle and tempered with a slow...
Página 17 - ... of Indian Town shall work on the road as far as red hill and anny member refuse to work shall be fined 75c and Jacob Miles to be Road Master and he to be paid $1 pr. year. 10th Be it known that no person be allowed to swear on the high way of Indian Town and if so they are to be fined from $1 to $2. (Amendment) 1st offence 25 2nd 75 3rd 100. llth Be it known that anny person or persons seen or known to be fighting upon the highways or else where of Indian Town in the Town the one found guilty...
Página 10 - No member of the Pamunkey tribe is of full Indian blood. While, the copper-colored skin and the straight, coarse hair of the aboriginal American show decidedly in some individuals, there are others whose Indian origin would not be detected by the ordinary observer. There has been considerable intermixture of white, blood in the tribe, and not a little of that of the negro, though the laws of the tribe now strictly prohibit marriage to persons of African descent.
Página 61 - This course made it necessary to drop a day about once iu two months, and thus reduce their year into twelve lunations instead of three hundred and sixty days. This being about eleven days less than the sidereal year, they discovered the discrepancy aud corrected their reckoning by the stars. In practice, therefore, the year varied, being sometimes twelve, sometimes thirteen, lunar months.
Página 18 - Plates 40, 47, 48, 49, and 50 are peculiar and seemingly have no direct relation to any other part of the codex. In the upper left hand corner of each are four day columns, all more or less injured, but each column evidently contained, originally, thirteen days, or, more correctly speaking, the symbol for one day repeated thirteen times. In every case the day in the first (left hand) column and that in the third column are the same. As the numbers attached to them are absolutely unreadable in Kingsborough...
Página 10 - It consists of about 800 acres, 250 of which are arable land, the remaining; portion being woodland and low, marshy ground. This tract was secured to the Pamunkey Indians by act of the colonial assembly, and they are restrained from alienating the same. From a census taken by the writer in 1893 there were found to be 90 Indians then actually present on the reservation. There are, however, about 20 others who spend a part of the year in service in the city or on some of the steamers which ply the...