BOLIVIA Mojos Indians Natives - 1894 Antique Print

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1894 Publisher: D. Appleton & Co., New York, 5 Bond Street Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper. Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17,5 x 26 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNotes: 1. Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: Dwelling in a land of hills, glens and brooks, the Chiquitos have no knowledge of navigation. The Mojos, on the contrary, who have their camping-grounds along the banks of large rivers or on frequently- flooded plains, are all skilful boatmen. Nevertheless, they depend for their sustenance chiefly on agriculture. The periodical floods occur at regular seasons, leaving the crops full time to ripen between sowing and harvest tides. They give up less time to merrymaking than their southern kinsfolk, and are generally of more laborious habits. Hence their industries are greatly developed, and although living far from the large towns and markets, the Mojos excel all the other Indians as weavers, builders and wood-carvers. They even probably surpass the Chinese themselves, as well as all other people, in the surprising skill with which they can work on given models ; but they lack the inventive faculty, as is so often the case with good imitators. According to Viedma, an explorer quoted by D'Orbigny and by most other writers on Bolivia, the Mojos were acquainted with a sort of writing system, which consisted of strokes drawn on tablets. Their language is at once more guttural and far less rich than that of the Chiquitos. Some of their tribes not engaged in commercial pursuits were even unable to reckon above five, some stopping at three or four. All the Mojos dwelling within the Bolivian frontiers number collectively about 30,000 ; this figure should be perhaps doubled to include the kindred tribes living in Brazil and the northern forests nominally belonging to Bolivia. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

Price: 12.48 USD

Location: Manassas, Virginia

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