. 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. ;25 There are veiy many tribes and languages, and it is not possible to settle-how far they include distinct races. Up to about 2,500 miles Indians offrom the mouth of the great river the Tupi language in a corrupt *^® Amazons,form and a patois Portuguese are very generally spoken. Further up,in the Andes districts, Quichua is spoken. Mr. A. R. Wallace describes theTupi India
. 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. ;25 There are veiy many tribes and languages, and it is not possible to settle-how far they include distinct races. Up to about 2,500 miles Indians offrom the mouth of the great river the Tupi language in a corrupt *^® Amazons,form and a patois Portuguese are very generally spoken. Further up,in the Andes districts, Quichua is spoken. Mr. A. R. Wallace describes theTupi Indians as having a varying coppery complexion, jet-black straighthair, black eyes, and little or no beard. Some have the wholeface wide and rather flattened, and many have most regularfeatures. The cheek-bones are not prominent in most, nor the eyes atall oblique. Their figures are often superb, with splendid chest develop-ment. The varieties of customs and manners would fill the Uaupe Indians are tribes in which the women wear absolutelyno dress at all; paint supplies its place, and is regarded as ch^ess. Asamong many of the South American Indians, ornaments are almostexclusively worn by the The men. Sometimes themen wear long quillfeathers horizontallystuck through theirlower lips ; at others,both sexes are mostelaborately tattooed ingeometrical patterns(Mundurucus). Thegirls in some tribes, onapproaching maturity,have to undergo an or-deal resembling that ofthe benguera among theKaffirs, to test their en-durance. The beating-is sometimes so severe as to cause fainting and even death. Themedicine-man is universally found. They have no definite idea of agood spirit, but are much more persuaded of bad ones. In some tribeslarge dwellings are constructed in which many families live together ; inothers, the dwellings are the merest shelters, or they have no houses at Mundurucus, on the river Tapajos, are the most numerous andformidable tribe surviving in
Size: 1779px × 1404px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectcivilization, bookyea
