Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14596246669)

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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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tumults among the Indian tribes appear,from whatever data derived, to have been rife, over a vast surface, about that epoch. Antique Articles from New York. In Fig. 3, Plate 20, we behold one of those anomalous implements of the pastIndian age, found within the boundaries of New York, the uses of which, from ourimperfect knowledge of their ancient customs, is indefinite. It is quite bell-shapedand sohd. The material is a hard, black, volcanic stone. This specimen is figuredfrom the State collection at Albany. The perforated implement, Fig. 2, and the finestone axe, Fig. 4, are from the same collection. Ancient War-Axe of Red Translucent Quartz. Plate 20, Fig. 1, is a stone tomahawk of the kind denominated casse tete by theFrench. It consists of two oval blades, united by a round socket, prepared for receivinga handle, the whole being of a solid piece. The material is a red silicious quartz, semi-translucent. It is figured from the collection of Brantz Mayer, Esq., of Baltimore. PI. 13
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