Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-YorkSchoolcraft, Henry Rowe
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Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
Indians of North America -- New York (State); Iroquois Indians
VI. RELICS OF ABORIGINAL ART IN WESTERN NEW-YORK, 133
Class 1. Nabikoagunä, [medals,] 134
Class 2. Medäekä, [amulets,] 137
Class 3. Attejegunä, [implements of art,] 139
Class 4. Opoagunä, [pipes,] 140
Class 5. Minäce, [beads,] 142
Class 6. Peägä, [wampums,] 143
Class 7. Mudwämina, [jingling dress ornaments,] 143
Class 8. Otoaugunä, [ear jewels,] 144
Class 9. Æs, [shells,] 144
Class 10. Ochalis, [nose jewels,] 145
VII. ORAL TRADITIONS OF THE IROQUOIS, HISTORICAL AND SYMBOLIC, 147
_a._ Ancient shipwreck of a vessel on the coast, 147
_b._ Forays into the Cherokee and Cataba country, 148
_c._ Exploit of Hiadeoni, 150
_d._ Seneca embassy of peace to the Cherokees, and exploit
of Awl, 153
_e._ Grave-yard serpent and corn giant 154
_f._ Allusion to the siege of Fort Stanwix and battle of
Oriskany, 155
_g._ Defeat of the Kah-Kwahs, 155
_h._ Epoch of the confederacy, 156
_i._ Some passages of their wars with monsters and giants, 156
VIII. TOPICAL INQUIRIES, 163
_a._ Who were the Eries? 164
_b._ Building of the first vessel on the upper lakes, 166
_c._ Who were the Alleghans? 168
_d._ War with the Kah-Kwahs and their retreat down the
Allegany, 176
IX. MISCELLANEOUS TRAITS, 181
_a._ Infant Atotarho, 181
_b._ Red Jacket and the Wyandot and Delaware claim to
supremacy, 182
_c._ Brant and the Buffalo church, 183
_d._ The county clerk and the wolf scalp, 184
_e._ Specimen of Iroquois picture writing, 132
X. MORAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION AND PROSPECTS, 185
ABSTRACT OF CENSUS RETURNS, 191
DEAF AND DUMB, IDIOTS, LUNATICS AND BLIND, 201
APPENDIX.
Benton, 203
Extracts from author’s private journal, 206
Clark, 233
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