Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14762178231)

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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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cope. (Fig. 5.) Various sizes and shapes of the snow-shoe are worn by the different tribes. Thereis also always a female snow-shoe, Avhich is shorter, and has some peculiarities of shape.The cording of the latter is often painted in fanciful colors, and furnished with lighttassels. 29. No tribe in the United States dispenses with the azian. This is generally madeof a quarter of a yard of strouds, drawn closely about the person, before and behind,and held up by the abdominal string, which also supports the leggins. A flap of thecloth hangs down an equal length behind and before. This flap is usually ornamentedby needle-work, elaborately done. (Fig. 2, Plate 13.) 30. Over his shirt, or around his coat, if that gannent be worn, the warrior windshis baldric or girdle, which is woven of worsted from beaded threads. The ends ofthese filaments depend as a tassel. (Vide Fig. 5, Plate 13.) The garter is generallyconstructed of similar materials. (Vide Fig. 5, Plate 13.) An ornament made of the
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