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Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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statements: The contiguity of these two races, the fierce Carib and thetimid tribes of the more northern islands (the Lucayans) has long puzzled theethnologist. Irving indulged in some rambling notions of the origin of the Carib,derived from observations of the early students of the obscure relations of the Ameri-can peoples. Larger inquiries and more scientific observations has, since Irvingstime, been given to the subject, still without bringing the question to recognizablebearings. The craniology of the Carib is scantily known, and there is much yetto be divulged. The race in its purity has long been extinct. Lucien de Rosny, inan anthropological study of the Antilles published by the French Society of Ethnologyin 1886, has amassed considerable data for future deductions. These bands or rings of woven cotton worn by the Caribbee women were abouttwo inches wide and sometimes embellished with pieces of gold, pearls, and valuablestones; a sort of double garter known by them as llauto.
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