Primitive Industry: Or, Illustrations of the Handiwork, in Stone, Bone and Clay, of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of AmericaG.A. Bates, 1881 - 560 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 73 - Of this Shell they also make round Tablets of about four inches diameter, which they polish as smooth as the other, and sometimes they etch or grave thereon, Circles, Stars, a Half Moon, or any other figure suitable to their fancy.
Σελίδα 416 - ... foot long, with men or beasts carved, so big or massie, that a Man may be hurt mortally by one of them; but these commonly come from Mauquauwogs, or the men eaters, three or four hundred miles from us. They have an excellent Art to cast our Pewter and Brasse into very neate and artificiall Pipes.
Σελίδα 2 - ... us, and as well, or better, if we may believe what our Forefathers have told us. We had then Room enough, and Plenty of Deer, which was easily caught; and tho...
Σελίδα 325 - Generally all the Men throughout the Countrey have a Tobacco-bag with a pipe in it, hanging at their back; sometimes they make such great pipes, both of wood and stone, that they are two...
Σελίδα 414 - The use of this mineral, it would appear from the account given by Brereton, was much more common among the Indians of Massachusetts, than among these tribes occupying the territory between the Hudson and the Susquehanna rivers. Brereton's statement is, as given in his Brief and True Relation of the Discovery of the Northern Part of Virginia...
Σελίδα 197 - ... and hoes. The annexed figures represent both kinds of implements. I described the shovels (Fig. 1) as oval plates of flint, flat on one side and slightly convex on the other, the outline being chipped into a sharp edge.
Σελίδα 233 - It is composed of small pieces of native copper, pounded together; and in the cracks between the pieces, are stuck several pieces of silver ; one .nearly the size of a four penny piece, or half a dime.
Σελίδα 393 - I was surprised to find the value these people attach to this medicine. They begged and implored Col. Murphy to recover it for them, and promised to pay the Utes as many horses as they wanted, and also to make a permanent and lasting peace not only with the Utes, but also to refrain from further depredations on the Texas border, if this should be restored. Col. Murphy promised to endeavor to recover it, but I think his success in the matter will be doubtful, as the Utes also attach great importance...
Σελίδα 383 - By the system of names imposed on the men composing the Algonquin, Iroquois, Cherokee, and other nations, a fox, a bear, a turtle, etc., is fixed upon as a badge or stem, from which the descendants may trace their parentage. To do this the figure of an animal is employed as a heraldic sign or surname. This sign is called in the Algonquin, town-mark or totem.
Σελίδα 413 - Spaniards * * * * made these holes in the mountains : but *"**itis**** almost undoubted that the Indians dug these holes." It would seem from the above that the Indians had access to a great deal more copper than they appear ever to have made use of, limited, as it was, in comparison to the supply obtainable in the Lake Superior region. Indeed, it is not improbable that all the copper articles, found along the Atlantic coast, were brought from western localities ; and that the metal that was at hand...