 | William Bollaert - 1860 - 308 Seiten
...about 1300, AD, the male line of the Scyris became extinct, when Toa, his daughter, was declared his stones are from four to eight inches long. and about...work of great labour, — and are each pierced with a ho|g at one end, through which a string is placed to suspend it round the neck. It appears almost incredible... | |
 | William Bollaert - 1860 - 330 Seiten
...Wallace, Travels on the Amazon, 1853, 278, Ornaments of the Uaupes Indians. " I now saw several men with their most peculiar and valued ornament — a cylindrical, opaque, white stone, which is quartz imperfectly crystallized. These According to the reading of the coloured stones by... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 Seiten
...supposed, a piece of jasper. The Brazilians also use ornaments of imperfectly crystallised quartz, from four to eight inches long and about an inch in diameter. Hard as it is, they contrive to drill a hole at each end, using for that purpose the pointed leaf-shoot... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1917 - 962 Seiten
...marble, but which is really quartz imperfectly crystallized (sec. 20). These stones are from 4 to 8 inches long and about an inch in diameter. They are...ground round, and flat at the ends, a work of great labor, and are each pierced with a hole at one end, through which a string is inserted to suspend it... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1896 - 1236 Seiten
...employed as it was by the people of a large part of the world. Wallace says: I now saw several men with their most peculiar and valued ornament, a cylindrical...opaque white stone, looking like marble, but which is quartz imperfectly crystallized. These stones arc from 4 to 8 inches long and about 1 inch in diameter.... | |
 | Joseph Deakins McGuire - 1896 - 148 Seiten
...employed as it was by the people of a large part of the world. Wallace says: I now saw several men with their most peculiar and valued ornament, a cylindrical...opaque white stone, looking like marble, but which is quartz imperfectly crystallized. These stones are from 4 to 8 inches long and about 1 inch in diameter.... | |
 | Jeffrey Quilter, John W. Hoopes - 2003 - 448 Seiten
...drawing my attention to this citation. The full account is as follows:"! now saw several of the men with their most peculiar and valued ornament — a...They are ground round, and flat at the ends, a work ot great labour, and are each Perhaps the length of time needed to drill these holes was exaggerated... | |
 | 1895 - 1246 Seiten
...but which is quartz imperfectly crystalli/cd. These stones are from 4 to 8 inches long and ahout 1 inch in diameter. They are ground round and flat at the ends, a work of great labor, and each piereeil with a hole nt one end, through which a string is suspended to hang it around... | |
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Indians with their most peculiar and valued ornament — a cylindrical, opaque, white stone, looking like marble, but which is really quartz imperfectly crystallized. These stones are from four to eight inches long, and about an inch in diameter. They... 