Unknown Mexico

A Record of Five Years' Exploration among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre

By: Carl Lumholtz

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Paperback | 27 October 2011

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Carl Lumholtz (1851 1922) was a Norwegian ethnographer and explorer who, soon after publishing an influential study of Australian Aborigines (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), spent five years researching native peoples in Mexico. This two-volume work, published in 1903, describes his expeditions to remote parts of north-west Mexico, inspired by reports about indigenous peoples who lived in cliff dwellings along mountainsides. While in the US in 1890 on a lecture tour, Lumholtz was able to raise sufficient funds for the expedition. He arrived in Mexico City that summer, and after meeting the president, Porfirio Diaz, he set off with a team of scientists for the Sierra Madre del Norte mountains in the north-west of Mexico, to find the cave-dwelling Tarahumare Indians. Volume 1 covers the start of the expedition and Tarahumare life, etiquette and beliefs, as well as details of the natural history of this little-explored region."

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Preface
Preparations for the start
A remarkable antique piece
Camping at Upper Bavispe River
A splendid field prepared for us by the ancient agriculturists of Cave Valley
Second expedition
Fossils, and one way of utilising them
The uncontaminated Tarahumares
The houses of the Tarahumares
Arrival at Batopilas
Nice-looking natives
A priest and his family make the wilderness comfortable for us
The Tarahumares still afraid of me
The Tarahumares physique
Politeness, and the demands of etiquette
Many kinds of games among the Tarahumares
Religion
The shamans or wise men of the tribe
Relation of man to nature
Plant-worship
The Tarahumare's firm belief in a future life
Three weeks on foot through the Barranca
Resumption of the journey southward
Cerro de Muinora, the highest mountain in Chihuahua
On to Morelos
Winter in the High Sierra
Pueblo Viejo
Inexperienced help
A glimpse of the Pacific from the High Sierra
A cordial reception at San Francisco
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