Title: The earth and its inhabitants: Young Talamancas Indians
Identifier: earthitsinhabita291recl (find matches)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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INHABITANTS OF COSTA RICA. 3U5 to Thiel hundreds are still kept in a state cf servitude in Nicaragua, where the price of a Guatuso was recently fifty dollars. The natives of the southern districts are generally grouped under the collective name of Talamancas, although each tribe has its special designation» Such are Fig-. 135.-Young Talamancas Indians
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the Chirripos, the Cabecars, Yiceitas, Bribri and Tiribies, who still decorate them- selves with plumes, strings of teeth or pearl necklaces, and dwell in jmlenqties with thatched roof reaching to the ground. On the Pacific coast live other tribes, the Borucas or Bruncas, the Terrebas and others, who have given their names to the neighbouring villages. The Chirripos and Cabecars near the Cartago district have already been baptised. The other 53

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