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...time she aroused the anxiety of the people with whom she was living, so a search was organized and continued through the night and several days thereafter with absolutely no success. From the physical features of the region thereabouts it was concluded that she must have fallen over some cliff and been drowned in one of the fast tidal currents that abound there...
...Friday, Dr. A. V. Kidder '08, curator of Southwestern Archaeology, will take as his subject "Basic Civilizations in the Southwest", describing the coming of agriculture into the Southwest and tracing the life, art, and design of the basket-makers and cliff-dwellers. On May 5, Dr. Charles Peabody '90, curator of European archaeology, will speak on "Art Prehistoric and Primitive", telling of the remarkable art of upper Paleolithic times in southern France and comparing these early efforts with the drawings of children. On May 12, Dr. H. J. Spinden '06, curator of Mexican Archaeology, will lecture on "Maya...
...business. As old, let us say, as the impulse to destroy your fellow caveman, whom you could not lick on the physical merits, by withdrawing to a safe distance and mimicking his personal mannerisms and tone of voice, or exaggerating in a drawing on a cliff-face the length of his nose or the style of his whiskers...
...trail of the Qua Quan Quot was peculiar, not to say gruesome. I was digging on the edge of the eliff overlooking the Urubamba Canyon when my pick struck on a rock that rang hollow. By careful investigation, I finally discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped up, so as to be airtight; and when I succeeded in forcing an entrance; a tremendous puff of noxious gas burst out, asphyxiating me instantly. When I recovered...
...original purpose of the game, to carry up building materials, had been long since forgotten, in fact a new form of the sport had to be invented to roll the rocks down again. The spectators increased prodigiously in numbers. Railings were built along the cliff-tops, and places allotted on payment of a substantial sum. Tickets were soon at a premium; these, let me add, were the small bone chips which we have gathered in large numbers from the ruins. In time, the income from this source alone was sufficient to maintain the whole institution...