Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14596252278)

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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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o MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 97 9. The accompanying Plate, 8, affords a life-like view of a female buffalo anddomestic cow. It will be perceived that the former is considerably the tallest; jjutthere is in reality not much difference in the weight of the two, inasmuch as the latteris of thicker and more compact form. The same remark is applicable to the males ofthe two species. Occasionally there are found, as in the case of our domestic cattle,enormous specimens of the buffalo of both sexes, but as a general thing there is notmuch disparity in the size of these two branches of the same great family. 10. The hunting party was composed of nine men, including myself. Continuingour course south-westwardly, we reached Lac Blanc, a fine sheet of water, which boreupon its surface swans, geese, and ducks m great numbers, which we did not disturb,as there were fresh signs of elk and traces of buffalo. From this point we followeda small stream which ran through very swampy ground, and which was lite