Lanterna Rally

Author: George Gibbs

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780331985771

Excerpt from Instructions for Research Relative to the Ethnology and Philology of America: Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution To the first class belong the only antiquities of America, and these are of various descriptions. They include the tools found ih' the nor therm copper-mines the articles inclosed in the mounds of Ohio and elsewhere; the images common in Kentucky and Tennessee, indicat ing, among other things, the worship of the Phallus; pottery, the fragments of which are abundant in F lorida, the Gulf States, and on the Gila, connecting an extinct with an existing. Art; and especially those specimens frequently disinterred in the Mexican States, belong ing to the era of Aztec or Toltecan civilization. It is especially im portant to ascertain the antiquity of these by careful observation of the circumstances under which. They are discovered, in order hot to confound ancient with modern utensils. 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.