658 INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT UPON HUMAN INDUSTRIES. 



Table showing American environments in 



Area and physiography 



Chief minerals, plants, 

 and animals. 



Alimentation. 



Dress and adornment. 



9. California and Oregon. 









Short valleys isolated en- 



Ko clay, siliceous and 



Diet of fish, meat, acorns, 



Buckskin and grass- 



closing rivers stocked 



friable stone; fibrous 



pinyon; mush; stone 



fringed skirts, rohes, 



■with sea products. 



plants, fruits, and 

 woods abundant ; fish, 

 niollusks. and game. 



boiling. 



and moccasins. 



10. Pueblo region. 









Arid mesas and canyons 



Shales, clays, gems; 



Maize, pulse, melons, 



Tawed skin and wo- 



among mountains; ir- 



mesquite, yucca, 



little meat; griddle 



ven garments ; for- 



rigable lands. 



agave, oak: deer, rab- 



and cooking pot. 



merly rabhit robes, 





bit, antelope, coyote, 





feathers and paint ; 





puma. 





no tattooing. 



11. 2Kddle America. 









Mountains and table- 



Friable stone, obsidian. 



Maize ground, frijoles, 



TToven and bark gar- 



lands, wet and dry sea- 



jade-like stone, silver 



gri ddle cooking ; 



ments, sandals of 



son, isotherm 82° to 



yucca, agave, cotton, 



pulque, mescal, cacao, 



twine, hats, feather 



59° P.; vertical cli- 



maize, beans, peppers, 



iguana. 



work, labrets. 



mate zones. 



fish, birds. 







12. Littoral and Insular 









Americas. 









Perpetual summer ; no 



Granular stone, no chip- 



Fish and mollusk, ca- 



Little clothing, bark 



snow; mountains and 



ping ; shells, great 



cao, cassava, batatas, 



cloth, feather work. 



insular areas in deep, 



canoe trees, cacao, 



turtle, iguana, chicha, 





clear seas ; currents 



manioc; no great 



snuff. 





northwestward. 



mammals; fishes, 

 birds, and mollusks. 







13. Cordilleras of South 









America. 









Elevated plateaus, with 



Volcanic rocks, gold 



Bread of maize, pota- 



Woven stuffs of cot- 



high mountains, 



• and silver; maize, po- 



toes, fish, llama, 



ton and wool ; san- 



gorges, desert coast, 



tatoes, cotton, coca, 



guanaco, coca, chi- 



dals, poncho. 



rainless, vertical cli- 



cinchona, cochineal ; 



cha, salt. 





mate zones. 



llama. 







14. Andean Atlantic 









Slope. 









Orinoco, Amazon, Maian- 



Minerals scarce; vege- 



Fish, turtle, monkeys, 



Bark cloth ; feather 



yon, Madeira, Xapo, 



tation reeking; ani- 



peccary, manatee. 



ornaments, jewelry 



etc. ; tropical prod- 



mal life arboreal and 





of teeth. 



ucts; well watered and 



aquatic. 







forested. 









l'i. Eastern Brazil. 









Tropical ; elevated table- 



Friable stone, clay; for- 



Some maize and cassava, 



Cotton, hark cloth, 



lands hetween low 



ests, palm trees, hard- 



hut chiefly on natural 



s c a n I y clothing; 



sierras ; forested ; 



woods; mollusks and 



products of the soil; 



labrets. 



rivers (nil ofcataracts. 



fish. 



roasting and boiling. 





