Research Catalog

Title

Essays of an Americanist. I. Ethnologic and archaeologic. II. Mythology and folk lore. III. Graphic systems and literature. IV. Linguistic. By Daniel G. Brinton.

Author

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899.

Publication

Philadelphia, David McKay [1890?]

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Description

xii,489p. illus.

Subject

• Indians
• American Indian or Alaska Native
• America > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Ethnologic and archæologic -- II. Mythology and folk lore -- III. Graphic systems and literature -- IV. Linguistic.
• Review of the data for the study of the pre-historic chronology of America -- On Palæoliths, American and others -- On the alleged Mongolian affinities of the American race -- The probable nationality of the "Mound-builders" -- The Toltecs and their famous empire -- The sacred names in Quiche mythology -- The hero-god of the Algonkins as a cheat and a liar -- The journey of the soul -- The sacred symbols in America -- The folk-lore of Yucatan -- Folk-lore of the modern Lenape -- The phonetic elements in the graphic systsems of the Mayas and Mexicans -- The ikonomatic method of phonetic writing -- The writing and records of the ancient Mayas -- The books of Chilan Balam -- One the "Stone of the Giants" -- Native American poetry -- American languages, and why we should study them -- Wilhem von Humboldt's researches in American languages -- Some characteristics of American languagees -- The earliest form of human speech as revealed by American tongues -- The conception of love in some American languages -- The lineal measures of the semi-civilized nations of Mexico and Central America - The curious hoac of the Taensa language.

OCLC

• 3705346
• SCSB-11680169

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library