Word: tribe
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...country. This lecture is a repetition of the one given last Wednesday evening under the auspices of the St. Paul's Society. Dr. Street served four years as district chief medical inspector of five provinces near Manila, where he had many interesting experiences with the savage tribes under his supervision. He will describe the Igorrotes, a tribe of northern Luzon, who cut off the heads of their enemies and use them for decorations in their huts. After the address R. D. Murphy '08 will sing, and tea, sandwiches, and other light refreshments will be served...
...Street went to the Philippines as a United States army surgeon, and after four years of service was appointed chief medical inspector of five provinces near Manila. Part of this work consisted in the medical care of the Igorrotes, a savage tribe in Luzon who cut off the heads of their victims and use them for decorations in their huts. Dr. Street will describe his experiences with this tribe and will show many photographs of them...
Born about 1858 in Minnesota, the home of the Sioux, Dr. Eastman spent the first fifteen years of his life with his native tribe, where he never heard a word of English, and was taught to hate and distrust the white men. Later he went to school and college. He attended Beloit and Knox Colleges and is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. For the last fifteen years he has been a physician, a missionary, and a writer, and is a speaker of wide experience. Among his books are "Indian Boyhood," and "Red Hunters and Animal People...
...Hotchkiss is an expert in the languages of different African tribes, particularly that of one large tribe, whose dialect he has been collecting and translating, with a view to introduce English works among the people...
...Louis H. Farlow, who for the last few winters has been collecting Indian trophies in the West, has lately presented to the Peabody Museum some valuable specimens, consisting for the most part of basket-ware obtained from the tribes in Alaska. British Columbia, and Southern California. The collection contains two specimen dancing skirts of an old tribe of Klamath Indians in Northwestern California. Both skirts are ornamented with black pinonnuts, and are woven with rawhide and grass. By far the most valuable of the specimens given by Mr. Farlow, is a very old Esquimo trinket-box about two feet long...