Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Հատոր 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 |
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Էջ 74 - States, to admit amongst them; and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents and employes of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon or reside in the territory described in this article...
Էջ 74 - Greenwich; thence north, on said meridian line, to the place of beginning, shall be and the same is hereby set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the tribes herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians, as, from time to time, they may be willing [with the consent of the United States*] to admit among them...
Էջ 74 - River, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning shall be and the same is hereby set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians, as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit among them...
Էջ 106 - ... crown, and occiput sooty black; upper plumage dull bluish ash, the feathers of the back with brownish margins; tail of the same color as the back, partly tinged with dull rufous and crossed with four brown bars, three of which are imperfect, being but little developed on the outer webs; the outer bar, however, crosses both webs and is narrowly tipped with white...
Էջ 30 - ... divided nearly equally by a ridge running through it at right angles to the river. We judged it to have been an open court, because there was not the least vestige of a wall in front, or on the ridge through the...
Էջ 6 - ... or fallen rock, or even of an ordinary talus of earth, so that the period that has elapsed since these houses •were deserted must equal the time taken to undermine and break down the six feet of solid rock, plus the time required to reduce this mass of rock to dust ; considering also that the erosive agents are here unusually weak, the resulting period would certainly not be inconsiderable. Figure 2 gives a fair representation of the present appearance of these dwellings, while their relations...
Էջ 70 - ... says that these beads are valued highly by the present Navajo Indians to the south, a small string, when such can be found, bringing in exchange a good horse. The Navajoes are constantly grubbing about the old buildings and adjacent graves in search of these trinkets. This accounts in some measure for their great scarcity among the ruins to-day. They were undoubtedly obtained by the ancients from other tribes, who brought them, or at least the shells from which they were fashioned, from the Pacific...
Էջ 30 - Verde, the upright slabs of rock which enclosed one of these rectangles were sunk 2 feet into the earth and projected 6 inches above it. In another was found a mass of charred matter that promised to throw some light upon the subject, but a chemical analysis by Dr. Endlich proved it to be simply charred juniper wood, without perceptible admixture of animal matter.
Էջ 3 - Jackeor., who paid them a short visit in 1874, and many similar remains had been described by early explorers in New Mexico and Arizona, but nothing like a complete survey of this particular region had been made. The district examined by our party covers an area of nearly 6,000 square miles, chiefly in Colorado, but which includes narrow belts in the adjacent Territories of New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. It lies wholly on the Pacific slope, and belongs almost entirely to the drainage-system of the...
Էջ 70 - The people are somewhat white, they wear apparel, and lie in beds, their weapons are bows, they have emeralds and other jewels, although they esteem none so much ,as turquoises, wherewith they adorn the walls of the porches of their houses, and their apparel and vessels, and they use them instead of money through all the country.