. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. ong been used for thispurpose on the North At-lantic. One kind, knownas purple wampum, wasderived from the shell ofVenus mercatorius, andthe white wampum fromthe columns of the peri-winkle. It appears pro- i bable that these people j were settled and civilised 1 to a considerable extent,and were extinguished by I the onslaughts of barbar- !j ous tribes. In south-west Color- :
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. ong been used for thispurpose on the North At-lantic. One kind, knownas purple wampum, wasderived from the shell ofVenus mercatorius, andthe white wampum fromthe columns of the peri-winkle. It appears pro- i bable that these people j were settled and civilised 1 to a considerable extent,and were extinguished by I the onslaughts of barbar- !j ous tribes. In south-west Color- :1 ?i ado, and in north-west New Mexico, and in partsof Utah and Arizona, remains of buildings of stone and mortar,aggregated in large towns have been found. Some were built in theopen by an agricultural people, others in high rocky situations withdefence towers ; while others are cave-dwellings in niches of the quantities of pottery are found in their neighbourhood, togetherwith wicker work, and arrow and spear heads. Probably these werebuilt by the ancestors of the Pueblo and Moqui Indians, or by tribesrelated to the Aztecs of Mexico. Inasmuch as most of the Indians in the Eastern and Central States. PRAIRIE INDIAN WOMAN. 756 THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA. The are now living more or less civilised lives, and present but pale reflectionsof their ancestors, a much better idea of what they were is tobe gained bj studying the western tribes. Beginning withthe Pagets Sound and Chinook Indians, on and near the Pacific coast, wefind robust bodies with bowed legs owing to their sitting in canoes. TheChinooks have several strongly Mongoloid features—flat faces and noses,oblique eyes, large nostrils, thick lips. They may be called the, archhead-flatteners, the flattening being done in wooden cradles, with a pieceof wood, bark, or leather tied over the forehead with strings which are tightened on successive da^s. Usu-ally the child does not leave itsposition till th
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