Montezuma's Dinner: A Review of Native Races of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancoft, New York: D. Appleton & Co., Civilized Nations, Vol. IICollege Division, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976 - 44 Seiten |
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... floor being mentioned . The second story receded from the first , probably in the terraced form . Clavigero remarks that " the houses of the lords and people of circumstance were built of stone and lime . They consisted of two floors ...
... floor being mentioned . The second story receded from the first , probably in the terraced form . Clavigero remarks that " the houses of the lords and people of circumstance were built of stone and lime . They consisted of two floors ...
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... floors of halls and apartments were many of them faced with polished slabs of marble , jasper , obsidian , and white tecali ; lofty columns of the same fine stones supported marble balconies and porticos , every inch and corner of which ...
... floors of halls and apartments were many of them faced with polished slabs of marble , jasper , obsidian , and white tecali ; lofty columns of the same fine stones supported marble balconies and porticos , every inch and corner of which ...
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... floor of an apartment used as a place for dinner in the fashion of Indians . Indians as they were , they doubtless took up these bowls one by one , each containing the dinner of one person di- vided at the kettle . They ate standing ...
... floor of an apartment used as a place for dinner in the fashion of Indians . Indians as they were , they doubtless took up these bowls one by one , each containing the dinner of one person di- vided at the kettle . They ate standing ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American aborigines ancient Anonymous Conqueror April Aztec Confederacy Aztec society brother brother to brother brought Central America chafing-dish children afterwards civilization Clavigero common stores communism in living composed confederacy of three cooked council of chiefs court customs dian dinner of Montezuma dishes earthen bowls eight gentes elective ethnical period existed facts federacies floor gens gentile halls History of America History of Mexico hundred and fifty Indian family Indian house Indian society institutions Iroquois joint-tenement house kettle king lands in common large households law of hospitality lords maize marble mats meal each day Middle status Montezuma lived Montezuma's Dinner napkins organized in gentes palace person Peru phratries plates presented principal war-chief probably pueblo of Mexico Red Race sachem and chiefs social Spaniards Spanish writers status of barbarism stone Tenochtitlan three Indian tribes three thousand tion Tlacopan usages Uxmal Valley of Mexico Village Indians