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A study of the houses of the American aborigines; with suggestions for the exploration of the ruins in New Mexico, Arizona, the valley of the San Juan, and in Yucatan and Central America, under the auspices of the Archæological institute (1880)

Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 · Cambridge [Mass.] · leaf 35

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al fires, the matronwas summoned. It was herduty to divide the food fromi fji the kettle to the several fam- ^ ilies within the house, accord- ing to their needs. Whatremained was put aside toawait the further direction ofthe matron. Here, then, was commun-ism in living, carried out inpractical… … HOUSES OF AMERICAN ABORIGINES. Iroquois, we may expect to find it generally among thoseIndian tribes which were in the same stage of advance-ment, and to trace it in a modified form among the moreadvanced sedentary Village Indians of New Mexico,Mexico, and Central America. It is seen to be a law…

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