The aborigines of Porto Rico and neighboring islands / by Jesse Walter Fewkes.

  • Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930.
Date:
1907
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Credit: The aborigines of Porto Rico and neighboring islands / by Jesse Walter Fewkes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine CONTENTS Page Introduction 17 Physical features of Porto Rico 21 Precolumbian population 23 Present descendants of the Porto Rican Indians 24 Race and kinship 26 Bodily characteristics. 28 Mental and moral characteristics 31 Government 33 Political divisions 35 Houses 41 Thatched with grasses 43 Thatched with palm leaves 44 With palm leaves on walls, and straw-thatched roofs 45 With slabs of palm wood on walls 45 Secular customs 47 Naming children; marriage customs 47 Hunting and fishing 48 Agriculture 50 Religion 53 Zemiism 54 Zemis of wood 57 Zemis of stone 58 Zemis of cotton cloth inclosing bones 58 Zemis painted on their bodies and faces 58 Priesthood 59 Divination 60 Medicine practices 61 Narcotics 63 Rites and ceremonies 64 Ceremony to bring crops 66 Survival of ceremony in modern dances 68 Burial ceremonies 69 Myths 72 Traditions of origin 74 A modern legend 75 The name Borinquen 76 Archeological sites 78 Dance plazas 79 Shell heaps '. 65 Caves 67 Archeological objects - 69 Celts 92 Enigmatical stones 97