Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14759916136)

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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. 173 inscription is made upon the inclined face of the rock. The present inhabitants in thecountry call it the Indian God. It is only in low stages of water that it can beexamined. Captain Eastman has succeeded, by wading in the water, in making a per-fect copy of this ancient record (vide Plate 18), rejecting from its borders the interpo-lations of modern names put there by boatmen, to whom it is known as a point oflanding. The inscription itself appears distinctly to record, in symbols, the triumphsin hunting and war. The bent bow and arrow are twice distinctly repeated. The arrowby itself is repeated several times, which denotes a date before the introduction of fire-arms. The animals captured, to which attention is called by the Indian pictographist,are not deer or common game, but objects of higher triumph. There are two largepanthers or cougars, variously depicted; the lower one in the inscription denoting theinfluence, agreeably to pictographs heretofore published