Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans: Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306Holmes, William Henry
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Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans: Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306
Holmes, William Henry
Indian art; Indians -- Antiquities
[56] Wyman, in the American Naturalist, November, 1868, Plate X, p. 455.
[57] Putnam, in Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Vol. VII, p. 230.
[58] Putnam, in Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Vol. VII, p. 259.
[59] Perkins, on An Ancient Burial-Ground in Swanton, Vt., Proceedings
of the American Association, 1873.
[60] Squier and Davis: Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley,
p. 232.
[61] Putnam, in Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Vol. VII, p. 266.
[62] Schoolcraft: History of the Indian Tribes, Vol. III, p. 79,
Plate 25.
[63] Schoolcraft: Notes on the Iroquois, p. 233.
[64] Beverly: History of Virginia, p. 145, Plate VI.
[65] Haldeman, in Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Vol. VII, p. 263.
[66] Atwater: Western Antiquities, p. 86. In the early days of mound
exploration shell was usually mistaken for bone or ivory.
[67] Kip: Jesuit Missions, p. 25.
[68] Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1794,
Vol. III, pp. 231, 232.
[69] Worsley: A View of the American Indians, p. 65.
[70] Collections of the New York Historical Society, 1841; vol. I, 2nd
Series, p. 194.
[71] Thought to be raccoon skins.
[72] Smith: True Relation of Virginia, pp. 33, 34.
[73] Wood: New England Prospect, p. 74.
[74] Du Pratz: History of Louisiana, p. 364.
[75] Lewis and Clark: Expedition up the Missouri, &c., p. 537.
[76] Harmon's Journal, p. 287.
[77] Swan: The Northwest Coast, p. 158.
[78] Powers: Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. III, p.
263.
[79] Drake: Book of Indians, p. 27.
[80] Morgan, in Fifth Annual Report on the New York State Cabinet of
Natural History, pp. 71, 73.
[81] Loskiel: Mission of the United Brethren, Latrobe trans., p. 34.
[82] Hutchinson: History of Mass., Vol. I, p. 406.
[83] Thomas Morton, in Historical Tracts, Vol. II, p. 29.
[84] Williams: A Key into the Language of America, p. 144.
[85] Penna: Historical Society, Vol. III, p. 131.
[86] Beverly: History of Virginia, p. 195.
[87] Lawson: History of North Carolina; Raleigh reprint, 1860, p. 315.
[88] On this point, however, the author quoted is apparently at fault,
as there is abundance of proof that the whites often engaged
successfully in the manufacture of this shell money.
[89] Adair: History of the American Indians, p. 170.
[90] Kalm's Travels, London, 1772, Vol. II, p. 100.
[91] _Ibid._, Vol. I, pp. 190, 191.
[92] Ruttenber: Indian Tribes of the Hudson River, p. 26.
[93] Lewis and Clark: Expedition up the Missouri, p. 73.
[94] Ruttenber: Indian Tribes of the Hudson River, page 43.
[95] Morgan, in Fifth Annual Report on the condition of the New York
State Cabinet of Natural History, page 73.
[96] Brice: History of Fort Wayne, 1868, page 28.
[97] Events in Indian History, Lancaster, Pa., 1841, page 143.
[98] History and description of New France, Vol. II, page 256.
[99] Penn, in Memoirs Hist. Soc. Penn'a, Vol. VI, p. 222.
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