Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . he domain of archaeology before the coming of theWhite races. The peculiar family rela-tion existing among nearly all the tribesDifficult eth- of the New World tendedto confuse the lines of racedistinction and to blur thewhole ethnographic outline. The house-hold was generally based upon a system ofmarriage differing but little from poly-andry, the result of which was to con-verge the lines of descent through thew
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . he domain of archaeology before the coming of theWhite races. The peculiar family rela-tion existing among nearly all the tribesDifficult eth- of the New World tendedto confuse the lines of racedistinction and to blur thewhole ethnographic outline. The house-hold was generally based upon a system ofmarriage differing but little from poly-andry, the result of which was to con-verge the lines of descent through thewoman instead of the man. The tribeswere largely nomadic in their disposi-tion. War and conquest were frequent, and one race, by means of aggressionand victory, was many times super-imposed territorially on another. Behind all this eon fusion there ap-pears to the ethnographer the shadowof the bottom question rcl- , • , , . . Ultimate deriva- ative to tlie primary origin tion of the in- of these races. We have diauraces-agreed to regard the Polynesian islandsand Northeastern Asia as the sources ofthe American aborigines, but it ma)- befrankly confessed that so much has not. VIEW OF MAJONGA.—LIMIT OF THE BROWN by De Berard. nography of theAmerican ab-origines. been established by irrefragable , the affinity and diversityof languages prevalent in the New Worldgive many evidences, when comparedwith Polynesian and Asiatic tongues,of a common paternity; and ethnicand tribal lines have been in manyparts sufficiently maintained to indi-cate with tolerable certainty the direc-tion of migrations and the ultimatederivation of these barbarous physical peculiarities of the Redmen, the primitive Mexicans, and the Es-quimaux have also been of advantage in 520 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. clearing up many questions relating to thefirst people of North America; and thepersistency of manners andcustoms—thatgreat fact which has often come to theres
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