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THE LIVING RACES OF MANKIND 



conception they equal any of 

 the present buildings of the 

 United States, if we except 

 the Capitol at Washington, 

 and may without discredit 

 be compared to the Pantheon 

 and the Coliseum of the Old 

 World." 



Another writer, Mr. 

 Mindeleff, says that "the 

 whole Pueblo country is 

 covered with the remains in 

 single rooms and groups of 

 rooms, put up to meet some 

 immediate necessity. Some 

 of these may have been built 

 centuries ago, some are only 

 a few years or a few months 

 old, yet the structures do not 

 differ from one another; nor, 

 on the other hand, does the 

 similarity imply that the 

 builder of the oldest example 

 knew less or more than his 

 descendants of to-day both 

 utilised the material at hand, 

 and each accomplished his 

 purpose in the easiest way." 

 Some of these fortresses, or 

 casas grandes, as they are 

 locally called, were capacious 

 enough to contain the whole 

 tribe who built them. But 



the object of this book is to describe living men and their customs rather than the buildings 



of past ages. 



The PueUo Indians themselves, as shown by three life-like busts in the Natural History 

 Museum, are decidedly good-looking people, some being lighter-coloured than others, and 

 grey hair not uncommon among the elders. Like American Indians in general, they never 

 become bald. In both sexes the hair is confined by a fillet of red cloth across the forehead, 

 passing round the head; while the body is enveloped in a blanket gracefully draped over 

 the shoulders. 



By permission of the Professor of Anthropology, Natural History Museum, Paris. 

 A CARIB MAN. 



The two photographs of Peruvian Indians were kindly supplied by Mr. J. G. Reid, of Lima. 



