Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14759921636)

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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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ANTIQUITIES. 175 Uniformity of Art. The household arts of the Indians, throughout the States bordering on the Atlantic,from Virginia to New England, were identical; no scrutiny being able to denote anyspecial differences in skill in their domestic or economical implements and utensils. Relics from New Hampshire. Plates 21, 22. The mode of pounding maize, by suspending the stone pestle fromthe limb of a tree, as practised by the ancient Pennacooks of the Merrimack valley,in New Hampshire, is represented in Plate 21. The pestle was commonly ornamentedby the head of a man or quadruped, neatly carved from greywacke, or compactsandstone, the mortar being also of the same material. The state of arts of thePennacook Indians appears to correspond to that of the western and southern tribes.We constantly observe, also, that the most precious species of stones and mineralbodies within their reach, were applied to pipe-making. In Plate 22, Fig. 1, weobserve the same fine green serpentine which is