I did not ascertain positively that such was the case, but was led to believe that the rhombus of the Apache was made by the medicine-men from wood, generally pine or fir, which had been struck by lightning on the mountain tops.
Three forms of the rhombushave come under my own observation, each and all apparently connected in symbolism with the lightning.
The Apache explained that the lines on the front side of the rhombus were the entrails and those on the rear side the hair of their wind god.
The medicine-men arranged a procession, two of the features of which were the rhombus and a long handled cross, upon which various figures were depicted.
Where the former shape was used, as at the Tusayan snake dance, the tracing of a snake or lightning in blue or yellow followed down the length of the rhombus and terminated in the small triangle, which did duty as the snake's head.
The Kaffirs have the rhombus among their playthings: The nodiwu is a piece of wood about 6 or 8 inches long, and an inch and a half or 2 inches wide, and an eighth or a quarter of an inch thick in the middle.
The Apache name for the rhombusis tzi-ditindi, the "sounding wood.
The rhombus was first seen by me at the snake dance of the Tusayan, in the village of Walpi, Ariz.
I found the rhombus also among the Rio Grande Pueblo tribes and the ZuA+-i.
The identification of the rhombus or "bull roarer" of the ancient Greeks with that used by the Tusayan in their snake dance was first made by E.
A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish.
The horizontal equatorial plane of the body is therefore an amphithect or elongated polygon (a rhombus in the simplest case possible), and divides the whole body into two equal amphithect pyramids.
The Rhomboidall protuberances in Pineapples maintaining this Quincuncial order unto each other, and each Rhombus in it self.
And though therein we meet not with right angles, yet every Rhombus containing four Angles equal unto two right, it virtually contains two right in every one.
A solid Rhombus being made by the conversion of two Equicrural Cones, as Archimedes hath defined.
Each vesica contains a rhombus of two equilateral triangles.
The rhombus contained has the area 1,184 square feet, very possibly designed to record the date (A.
James Smith, of the Manse of Monquhitter, situated about ten miles south-east of Banff, lent him some works on Natural History.
Among the articles which he was able to collect, we find descriptions of rare moths, rare birds, and rare fishes.
These enabled Edward to ascertain the names of some of the birds which he discovered in the neighbourhood.
The most of what I wrote in the local papers is lost, for ever lost.
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