. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. LlJCO > < Ien ZLU UJ coEE] INCONSPICUOUSNESS OF WEAPONS 255* aloueonce overawed and routed au attacking party of 30 Seri warriors,she duly mentioned the carbine ready for use in his hands and thesix-shooter and machete in liis belt; but iiothii]g was said of the Seriweapons. When a distinguished sportsman citizen of Caborca, thelocal authority on the Seri, sought to dissuade the 1895 expedition fromvisitiTig Tiburon, he was repetitively and cumulatively emphatic in hisoracular forecast, l
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. LlJCO > < Ien ZLU UJ coEE] INCONSPICUOUSNESS OF WEAPONS 255* aloueonce overawed and routed au attacking party of 30 Seri warriors,she duly mentioned the carbine ready for use in his hands and thesix-shooter and machete in liis belt; but iiothii]g was said of the Seriweapons. When a distinguished sportsman citizen of Caborca, thelocal authority on the Seri, sought to dissuade the 1895 expedition fromvisitiTig Tiburon, he was repetitively and cumulatively emphatic in hisoracular forecast, lis vont vous tuer! Tin ront rous tuerU Ils tuntvoustuer!!!—yethemadebutpassingreferencetopoisonedarrows,and none to other weapons, in the general implication that invaders ofthe tribal territory were toru limb from limb and strewn over the rocksand deserts of Seriland. When Jesus Omada, of Bacuachito, boastedhis Seri scars, he indeed emphasized the arrow-mark on his breast, butonly as a prelude and foil to the far ghastlier record of his teeth-tornarm. When Robinson and his companion were butc
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