ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, . h feather and rabbits fur. ])olished crystals, obsidian or vol-canic glass manufactured into delicate objects of ornamental or economic value;figures of gold and silver, exquisitely wrought, and filagree ornaments of beautifuldesign, fill many cases in the Museum. Anthropologists, such as dOrbigny. de Bourbourg. and Heinrich Scldieman,are of the opinion that the region now known a>; Yucatan, Chiapas and Tabasco,was the cradle-land of primitive American civilization. From this land went out,in the very remote past, colonies into South and Central Ameri
ONTARIO SESSIONAL PAPERS, 1914, . h feather and rabbits fur. ])olished crystals, obsidian or vol-canic glass manufactured into delicate objects of ornamental or economic value;figures of gold and silver, exquisitely wrought, and filagree ornaments of beautifuldesign, fill many cases in the Museum. Anthropologists, such as dOrbigny. de Bourbourg. and Heinrich Scldieman,are of the opinion that the region now known a>; Yucatan, Chiapas and Tabasco,was the cradle-land of primitive American civilization. From this land went out,in the very remote past, colonies into South and Central America, carrying withthem the arts of civilized men. From here also, detached bodies went into Mexicoand the North lands, where they built Mitla and other cities, the wonderful ruinsof which excite our astonishment and admiration. In these lands we find thetidal remains of an ancient rare, which welled up from its primal springs inYnratan and tlionce overflowed, multiplied and rolled on over the entire continent. ARCllyEOLOGICAL REPORT. 29. Temple Figure.(Copan, Honduras.) 30 AKClliEOLOGlUAL KEPOKT. As the overflowing population roiled far away from its origin and its source,it lost the best part of its civilization. It losi its social strength, its historicmemories, arts, tradition, crafts, and, in some instances, almost the very means andmethods of subsistence. In time, the womb of primitive civilization itself became gangrened, and whenCortes entered Mexico and Grijalva landed in Yucatan, they found the Axtec andMaya civilization decaying, disintegrating and decomposing. Some of thesculptured statues are of heroic dimensions. The curiously designed figuies, theunfamiliar carvings on the altars and the panel work on the inner walls of Copanare not surpassed by the temple specimens of Egypt and Assyria on exhibition inParis and London. Moui-nfully beautiful are the ruins of the prehistoric City of Copan, sur-rounded by a forest painful in the intensity and duration of its silence.
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