The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, 9. köideStephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman Jameson & Morse, 1887 |
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Page 185 - Survey is in two parts or volumes. The first in folio, contains the counties of Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Chester, and Lancaster, Cornwall, Derby, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Hants, Hereford, Herts, Huntingdon, Kent, Leicester and Rutland, Lincoln, Middlesex, Northampton, Nottingham, Oxford, Salop, Somerset, Stafford, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, Wilts, Worcester, and York.
Page 99 - They shot the bear, and wounded her on each side, but after awhile she ran away, and they ran after her. But after a time they had no more arrows or spears, with the exception of two or three young men, who still followed her. When they reached a muddy place, the bear stood on her hind legs and danced. The young men became frightened and ran back. When they looked at the dead woman they found very many wounds in her.
Page 187 - One altar contained about two bushels of ornaments made of stone, copper, mica, shells, the canine teeth of bears and other animals, and thousands of pearls. Nearly all of these objects are perforated in various ways for suspension. Several of the copper ornaments are covered with native silver, which had been hammered out into thin sheets and folded over the copper. Among these are a bracelet and a bead, and several of the spool-shaped objects, which, from discoveries made in other mounds of this...
Page 313 - The forest- trees, upon the smooth bark of which the Indian hunter commemorated his exploits in war, or success in the chase — the first rude efforts towards a written language — have withered in the lapse of time, or fallen beneath the inexorable axe. The rock upon which the same primitive historian laboriously wrought out his rude, but to him significant picture, alone resists the corrosion of years. Perhaps no people equally numerous have passed away without leaving more decided memorials...
Page 99 - ... with a grizzly bear. — A long time ago a man came to the canal to marry a wife. He found one, and gave some things to her father. The woman loved the man, but her father did not like his sonin-law, but threw away the things which the man gave him, hence the man went home. After awhile this woman and some others went to gather berries. My mother's mother was among them. The woman had a companion, and the two went away from their comrades where they saw the bear, but they did not fear it, they...
Page 168 - Alosa sapidissima] come up the rivers, the Indians run a dam of stones across the stream, where its depth will admit of it, not in a straight line, but in two parts, verging towards each other in an angle. An opening is left in the middle for the water to run off.
Page 137 - Kakop,2 or Turtle point, three miles north of Wessington Springs in Jerauld county. The point is a high promontory-like hill standing out on the western edge of the James River valley, above which it rises nearly 500 feet. It is the northern end of a high ridge of drift constituting a well washed interlobular portion of the principal moraine. A view of Turtle point and a portion of the ridge from the northwest is shown in Fig.
Page 99 - This was the daughter of a sick man, but when she came home, she found some other Indians slaying the family, and her father was killed. These took hold of her; one wanted her. another wanted her, and all wanted her, and so they killed her, and none had her. The man's wife dug deep in the ground, put one of her daughters there and covered her over. She did also the same for herself, and another person climbed a tree, and none saw her; so three were left alive. The man was sick, and yet they showed...
Page 212 - The nuts used for food, the wood for rims for snow-shoes, nets, and the like, and the bark for strings. Hemlock. — The wood serves for fire-wood and halibut hooks, the leaves for tea, and the branches for covers in steaming food. Huckleberry (black). — The berry is used for food and the juice for paint. • Huckleberry (blue). — Same purpose. Huckleberry (red). — Same purpose. Ironwood. — The wood is used for arrow-shafts, arrow and spear heads, and mat needles, and the bark for medicine....
Page 395 - Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and happiness of mankind, schools, and the means of education, shall forever be encouraged.