Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14596224109)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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ago, a party of about fifteenAmericans, the first they ever saw, came over the mountains and took the Zuni trail.Six years afterwards, another party, with four females, passed through. Their croplast year was very small, and sometimes fails them entirely on account of the drought.For this reason they hoard up their corn, and that sold us was four years old. Roasting-ears, hanging around the room, are of the same age. Their mode of marriage might well be introduced into the United States, with theBloomer costume. Here, instead of the swain asking the hand of the fair one, sheselects the young man who is to her fancy, and then her father proposes the match tothe sne of the lucky youth. This proposition is never refused. The preliminariesbeing arranged, the young man on his part furnishes two pair of moccasins, two fineblankets, two mattrasses, and two of the sashes used at the feast — while the maiden,for her share, provides an abundance of eatables, when the marriage is celebrated by
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MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 87 feasting and dancing. Poljgamy is imknown among them; but at any time, if eitherof the parties become dissatisfied, they can divorce themselves and marry with others,if they please. In case there are children, they are taken care of by their respectivegrandparents. They are a simple, happy, and most hospitable people. The vice ofintoxication is unknown among them, as they have no kind of fermented liquors.When a stranger visits one of their houses, the first act is to set food before him, andnothing is done till he has eaten. In every village are one or more edifices underground, and you descend a ladder to get into them. (Plate 6.) They answer to ourvillage groceries, being a place of general resort for the male population. I went intoone of them — it was stifling hot, and all the light and air came through the scuttleabove. In the centre was a small squaie box of stone, in which was a fiie of guavabushes, and around this a few old men were smoking. All arou