Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . in crevices in the rooting rocks, and hundreds long since despoiled oftheir plumes lay scattered about. After the sacred objects had been photographed,the officer and the writer tenderly returned them to their places in the The party was discovered when descending the mountain, and the informationwas carried to the village, so that upon the return of the writer and her companionsthere was great excitement. Had the people in general known of the temporaryremoval of the images of Payatamu their w
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . in crevices in the rooting rocks, and hundreds long since despoiled oftheir plumes lay scattered about. After the sacred objects had been photographed,the officer and the writer tenderly returned them to their places in the The party was discovered when descending the mountain, and the informationwas carried to the village, so that upon the return of the writer and her companionsthere was great excitement. Had the people in general known of the temporaryremoval of the images of Payatamu their wrath would have known no hounds; hutthese children of nature are like Civilized beings of tender years, and can be con-trolled through kindness or firmness, as occasion requires, by those for whom theyentertain profound respect. «The novel plan of making two Indians serve as a ladder, one standing upon the shoulders of theullu r, was used in order to reach this \vo of these images are now in the National Museum. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLI. iSfc:
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