Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82That the work was intended chie¿y as a ritual or religious calendar to guide the priests in the observance of religious festivals, and in their numerous ceremonies and other duties.That the figures in the spaces are in some cases symbolical, in others simply pictographic, and, in quite a number, refer to religious ceremonies, but that in many instances they relate to the habits, customs, and occupations of the people.That the work appertained to and was prepared for a people living in the interior of the country, away from the sea-shore.That the people of the section where it was prepared were peaceable and sedentary, supporting themselves chie¿y on agricultural products, though relying upon gins and traps and the chase to supply them with animal food.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.