. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ating contemj)orary aliens. Concordantlywith this habitual seutiment, they glory in their strength and swift-ness, and are inordinately i)roud of their fine figures and excessivelyvain of their luxuriant locks—indeed, they seem to exalt their ownbodies and their own kind well toward, if not beyond, the verge ofinchoate deification. The obverse of the same sentiment appears inthe hereditary hate and horror of aliens attested by their history, bytheir persistent blood-thirst, and by the rigorous
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ating contemj)orary aliens. Concordantlywith this habitual seutiment, they glory in their strength and swift-ness, and are inordinately i)roud of their fine figures and excessivelyvain of their luxuriant locks—indeed, they seem to exalt their ownbodies and their own kind well toward, if not beyond, the verge ofinchoate deification. The obverse of the same sentiment appears inthe hereditary hate and horror of aliens attested by their history, bytheir persistent blood-thirst, and by the rigorous marriage regulationsadapted to the maintenance of tribal purity; lor just as their highestvirtue is the shedding of alien blood, so is their blackest crime thetransmission of their own blood into alien channels. The potency ofthe sentiment is established by the unparalleled isolation of the tribeafter centuries of contact with Caucasians, by their irreducible love ofnative soil, by their implacable animosity toward invaders, and by BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XIX. THE MELIOOPE PRINTING CO., BOSTON TYPICAL SERl WARRIOR MCGEEJ INTOLERANCE OF ALIENS 155* their rigorously jiurity of blood; it is iiiaiiitested in tlieircommonplace conduct by a singular combination of hauteur and ser-vility, forbidding association with aliens on terms of equality. Theentire group at Costa Rica in 1894 were on good behavior, i)artly, nodoubt, for profit, partly because they were at peace bought by blood-shed; yet they ke})t an impassable gulf between themselves and theCaucasians, and a still wider chasm against the Papago and came to the tanqne, usually in groups, rarely alone, always alert;especially when alone or in twos or threes, they moved slowly andstealthily in their peculiar collected and up-stepping gait, often stop-ping, always glancing furtively with roving eyes, and bearing a curi-ous air of self-iepression—as of the camp-prowling
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