Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sullen nation of black obsidian, brooding beneath a cruel sun. Christ hangs dead upon his cross and the name of Mary is a sterile myth in dusty shrines. By night, among the peons, the old gods stir, the Aztec gods. Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake, is come again from "the cave which is called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night at hushed circles where a drum is beaten...
...incident remains to be identified. In addition there are fascinating extracts from one of the most interesting books of the period, Bartram's 'Travels in Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, etc.;' extracts dealing with alligators, snake-birds, Indians and strange plants. There are references to a cave with a bubble of ice, taken from a contemporary history of Hindustan; and the habits of astronomers in the Grand Observatory in Peking...
...Cave Man. The advent of a rough laborer into the apartment of a lazily rich woman starts off a fair comedy film. The rest shows how she washed him up and how he knocked a lot of people down...
Died. Mrs. Lee Collins, 66, step-mother of famed Floyd Collins, who was suffocated in Sand Cave, Ky., in February, 1925; at Cave City...
...dogs were acquired by Dr. S. J. Guernsey, Assistant Director of the Peabody Museum, in 1923, while visiting the state of Arizona at the head of an expedition to the cliff caves of the so-called basket maker region. On the Kayenta Plateau, near the famous Rainbow National Ridge, the expedition came upon a great cave. Working their way into the sandy cavern the University explorers entered the moulding dwelling and discovered two perfectly preserved dogs and two Indians, almost buried out of sight in the soft dry sand. It was evident that these Indians and their hunting dogs, since...