Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14596190020)

Identifier: archivesofaborig04scho (find matches)
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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cidental resemblance. No trace appears, or could be found by theseveral searches, of the assumed Runic letter Thor, which holds a place on formercopies. Rock inscriptions of a similar character have, within a few years, been foundin other parts of the country; which denotes the prevalence of this system among theaboriginal tribes, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. It is more peculiarly an Algon-quin trait, and the inscriptions are called by them Muzzinabiks, or rock-teachings;while the elements of the system itself are called, as above stated, Kekeewin andKekeenowin. Nor does this discovery militate against the general body of Scandi-navian testimony respecting the Ante-Columbian discoveries in America. That testi-mony remains undisputed, even in more southerly latitudes of the United States.These comprise the notices of the Scandinavian monuments of the United States, sofar as they have been recognized. It may be proper, in closing this summary of monumental proofs of the Scandi-
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