Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14578679080)

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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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eatest nicety. The appendedornaments of eagles feathers are represented in Figs. 4, 5, Plate 10. 34. The Indian ensign is formed by attaching the feathers of the eagle to a pole ofsome six feet in length, the bearer of which is conceived to be intrusted with a highhonor. These feathers are attached longitudinally, by puncturing the quill, anddrawing a line through the orifice. (Vide Fig. 1, Plate 13.) 35. Wherever the Indian goes in peace and war, and whatever he does, his pipe ishis constant companion. He draws consolation from it in hunger, want, andmisfortune; and when fair skies betide him—his constant expression for goodfortune — it is the pipe to which he appeals, as if every puff of the weed were anacceptable oblation to the Great Spirit. The various sacks in which he carries thischerished plant, are ornamented with great skill and patience. The drawings in Figs.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Plate 16, are taken from specimens of the Gush-kip-e-tan-gun, a tobaccopouch in our possession.
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III. ANTIQUITIES. C. () ANTIQUITIES. SYNOPSIS. 1. Antique Indian Pictographic Inscription on the Banks of the Hudson: (with two Plates.) By H. R. S. 2. Antique Pottery from the minor Mounds occupied by the Indians in Feasts to the Dead, on the Sea-coasts of Florida and Georgia. By H. R. S. 3. Antique colored Earthen-ware, from the Rio Gila, New Mexico. By H. R. S. 4. Erie Inscription in the Indian Character of the Kekeewin: (two Plates.) By H. R. S. 5. Notices of some Metallic Plates exhibited in annual Dances among the Muscogees: (one Cut.) By H. R. S. 1. ANTIQUE INDIAN PICTOGRAPHIC INSCRIPTION ONTHE BANKS OF THE HUDSON. (With two Plates.) There is a pictographic Indian inscription in the valley of the Hudson, abovethe Highlands, Avhich from its antiquity and character appears to denote the eraof the introduction of fire-arms and gunpowder among the aboriginal tribes of thatvalley. This era, from the well-known historical events of the contemporaneoussettlement of New Netherlands and