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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... stone , and plastered over in both cases with gypsum , which made them a brilliant white ; and some were constructed of a red porous stone . In cutting and dress- ing this stone flint implements were used . The fact that the houses were ...
... stone , and plastered over in both cases with gypsum , which made them a brilliant white ; and some were constructed of a red porous stone . In cutting and dress- ing this stone flint implements were used . The fact that the houses were ...
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... stone laid in courses . While the comparison was mendacious , we can understand the desire of the conqueror to ... stone with red veins like blood , white stone , and another sort that is transparent . The roofs were of wood , well ...
... stone laid in courses . While the comparison was mendacious , we can understand the desire of the conqueror to ... stone with red veins like blood , white stone , and another sort that is transparent . The roofs were of wood , well ...
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... stone common to that country , cemented with mortar . The arrangement of the buildings was such that they enclosed three great plazas or public squares , in one of which a beautiful fountain incessantly played . Twenty great doors ...
... stone common to that country , cemented with mortar . The arrangement of the buildings was such that they enclosed three great plazas or public squares , in one of which a beautiful fountain incessantly played . Twenty great doors ...
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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