Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14578753218)

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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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attitude of smoking. No. 115represents an inland Indian smoking. He wears his head-dress, and is one of themembers of the ceremonial society for tattooing. No. 117 denotes a chief and necromancer who tattoos; No. 118 is an ornament inhis slit ear; No. 120, his medicine-sack; No. 121, his ceremonial instruments. By hisalso wearing a hat and three gorgets, like 114, he prefigures his rank, and his visitsto the forts or trading-posts on the sea-board. He is evidently a man of consequenceand power, which is further denoted by No. 119, a wand. No. 116 symbolizes a dish of mixed colors, for the operation of tattooing. Figs.105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, represent objects to be copied, and placed pictorially onthe chief (117, 119). Fig. 78 denotes a road, and 122, serpents who beset the path;symbolizing enemies, trouble, misery, and pain of the most pointed and stingingcharacter. This completes the eastern end of the inscription. Notes on Virginia, p. 156. Lond. ed., 1778. Lettres Edifiante.
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8=. ®© ^ ® @ 1, ANTIQUITIES. 87 The top figure, No. G, opens the western portion of the pictograph. This is a chiefand warrior of distinction. Fig. 7 denotes his pipe; he is smoking after a fast. Figs.15, 16 are ornaments of leather, worn by distinguished warriors and chiefs; suchas breech-cloths, with hoofs of the deer attached to them. This is further shownby No. 14, ornaments of feathers. Fig. 33 is a symbol for the number 10, anddenotes ten days; the length of his fast. Fig. 34 is a mark for the number two, anddesignates two days; denotmg that he fasted the whole time, except a morsel of food atsunset. Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1.3, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 35,36, and 43, represent different objects relied on by the chief, in the exhibition of hismagical and political powers; denoting, in him, the sources of long life and potentinfluence. Figs. 30, 39, and 41, denote a journey in snow-shoes. Figs. 31, 40 are(agreeably to the prior explanation on