Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14742342686)

Identifier: archivesofaborig03scho (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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ninhabited region for five days, west, over the remaining elevations of theOzark chain, and came to fertile prairies beyond, inhabited by Indians called Quipana,Pani, or Pawnee. A few daj^s further march brought him to the banks of theArkansas, near the Neosho, which appears to have been about the present siteof Fort Gibson. Here, in a fruitful country of meadows, he wintered. Nextspring he marched down the north banks of the Arkansas, to a point opposite thepresent Fort Smith, where he crossed in a boat, previously prepared. He thendescended the south bank of the river to Anilco (Little Rock), where the armycrossed to the north bank, partly on rafts, and reached the mouth of the Arkansas,where he died. These ancient lines of march will more distinctly appear in the diagram (Plate 44)herewith furnished. Adventures in (be Ozark Mountains, recently revised, and published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co..riiiladelpLia; and forming an appropriate illustration of this portion of the text. I
Text Appearing After Image:
II. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. B. (51) MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. B. SYNOPSIS. A. GENERIC TRAITS OF MIND. 1. Dignity of Indian Thought. 2. The Indian pronounced very low in the Scale by Philosophers. 3. Testimony of the French Missionary Authors. 4. American Testimony on this Topic.6. True State of the Hunter-man. 6. Basis of Character. On what Founded. 7. Imperturbability. 8. Taciturnity. B. TRACES OF FOREIGN ORIGIN. (1 Platk.) 9. Scarifications on the Loss of Friends. Scalping. 10. Immortality in a Future State. 11. Primary Duality of the Deity. 12. A Persic Trait. 13. Not Buddhists. 14. Hebrew Customs. C. DISTINCTIVE PHASES OF THE HUNTER STATE. (8 Plates.) 15. Government Patriarchal. 16. Gathering Wild Rice. 17. Watching the Corn-fields. 18. Woman in the Savage State. 19. Striking the War Post. (68) 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. D. COSTUME. (7 Plates.) 20. General State of Indian Costume. 21. Moccasin. 22. Esquimaux Boot. 23. Leggin — Male and Female. 24. Characteristic Remarks. 25. War Coat. 26.

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.