Ancient America, in Notes on American ArchaeologyBaldwin, John D. (John Denison)
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Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology
Baldwin, John D. (John Denison)
America -- Antiquities; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian; Indians -- Antiquities
Garcilasso partly of Inca blood, 258;
not well qualified to write a history of Peru, 258-9;
he began with the fable of Manco-Capac, and confined all history
to the Incas, 259-61;
was received as an “authority,” 269;
his influence has misdirected Peruvian studies, 269.
Gila, valley of, its ruins, 82.
Gold the most common metal in Peru, 250;
astonishing abundance of Peruvian gold-work, 249-50;
their gardens made of gold, 250;
amount of gold sent from Peru to Spain, 238, 250;
gold calendar found recently at Cuzco, 236.
Herrara[TN-7] on the buildings in Yucatan, 149.
Huehue-Tlapalan, from which the Toltecs went to Mexico, 57, 75, 201-3;
supposed to be the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, 202, 203;
described in old Central American books, 202;
the Toltecs driven from Huehue-Tlapalan by the Chichimecs, or wild
Indians, 203;
it was at a distance northeast of Mexico, 201, 202;
Cabrera and others on Huehue-Tlapalan, 202.
Humboldt on Phœnician symbols in America, 186;
on the origin of the Aztecs, 218;
on Peruvian great roads, 245;
on books of hieroglyphics found in Peru, 246, 255;
describes the pyramid of Papantla, 91, 92.
Huxley on American ethnology, 69.
Incas of Peru, origin of the title, 267;
they represent only the last period of Peruvian history, 261;
their dynasty began 500 years or less before the Conquest, 260-1;
list of the Incas, 261;
Manco-Capac a fable, 260-1.
Indians of North America, vain endeavors to connect them with the
Mound-Builders, 62;
came toward the Atlantic from the northwest, 59;
the Iroquois group may have come first, 58;
their distribution relative to the Algonquins, 59, 60;
date of Algonquin migration estimated, 60;
these Indians resemble the Koraks and Chookchees, 65, 185;
they are entirely distinct from Mound-Builders and Pueblos, 60, 65;
their barbarism original, 61.
“Inscription Rock,” 78.
Inscriptions in Central America written in Maya characters, 196;
written perhaps in an old form of speech from which the Maya family
of dialects was derived, 196;
attempts to decipher them, 292.
Iron, names for, in ancient Peru, 248.
Israelitish theory of ancient America, 166-7.
Keweenaw Point, a copper district, 44.
Kukulcan, his worship, 220, 293.
Lake Peten in the forest, Maya settlement there, 95;
Ursua’s road from Yucatan to the lake, 95.
Landa wrote on the Mayas of Yucatan, 191;
preserved the Maya alphabet, with explanations, 191.
Languages in Mexico and Central America, 200, 205;
three groups, 216;
probably not radically distinct, 206, 216;
the most important group supposed to be Colhuan, 205.
Las Casas on Central American annalists, 187-8;
what he says of the old books and their destruction, 188.
Maize, did Indians get it from Mound-Builders? 35.
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