Unknown Mexico : a record of five years' exploration among the tribes of the western Sierra Madre; in the tierra caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and among the Tarascos of Michoacan / by Carl Lumholtz.

  • Carl Sofus Lumholtz
Date:
1902-1903
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Credit: Unknown Mexico : a record of five years' exploration among the tribes of the western Sierra Madre; in the tierra caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and among the Tarascos of Michoacan / by Carl Lumholtz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no difficulty in gaining my object in places close by. A number of Apaches, men and women, I was informed, had once been dumped into a well. I set to work at the place indicated, and our efforts were rewarded by the exhumation of eight skulls in perfect condition, besides many typical bones. The last raid of the Apaches on Fronteras was in 1875. Passing Cochuta about a hundred miles south of Bisbee, we came upon a deposit of fossils. It was scarcely more than a mile in extent, but many bones were said to have been taken away from it as curiosi- ties. I had already observed isolated fossil bones along the creeks on sev- eral occasions dur- ing our travels, but we could find nothing here of value. Signs that the country was in former times occupied by another race than its present inhabitants are seen everywhere through- out the region we traversed following the road to the south. Here they appear frequently as remarkable groupings of stones firmly embedded in the ground. Only the tops of the stones (the total length of which is about one foot) are seen above the surface, much as stones are used in parks and gardens for ornamental purposes. They are arranged in circles or in rectangles. I saw two circles close to each other, each six feet in Remarkable Ant-hill.
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