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aboriginal Algonquins arrow ASTOR Bartram basket birch bowl Bruyas cabin called Cammerhoff Canada canoe carried carved Cayuga Champlain Charlevoix chief clan Clarke corn husk council house covered dance deer described dishes Donck elm bark Entomologist False Faces feathers feet long Figure fire fish foot frame French grave ground handle head Hochelaga Hurons inches long Iroquois John Bartram Lake length LENOX long house Loskiel Mahican mats mentioned Mohawk Mohawk word Morgan museum reports notch O'Callaghan Oneida Onondaga example Onondaga reservation paddle painted Painted Post Paleontology Paleozoic palisades pieces of bark poles prisoners quadrangle rattle roof scalp Seneca shield shows side snowshoes splint spoons sticks stones TILDEN FOUNDATIONS town tree tribe usually village wampum women wood wooden masks woven writer York Indians YORK PUBLIC YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY York State Museum Zeisberger
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Page 86 - Vice Chancellor Brooklyn 1908 DANIEL BEACH Ph.D. LL.D. -' - - Watkins 1914 PLINY T. SEXTON LL.B. LL.D. - - Palmyra 1912 T. GUILFORD SMITH MACE LL.D.
Page 113 - Champlain states in his relation that " their village was enclosed with strong quadruple palisades of large timber, thirty feet high, interlocked the one with the other, with an interval of not more than half a foot between them, with galleries in the form of parapets, defended with double pieces of timber, proof against our arquebuses, and on one side they had a pond with a never-failing supply of water, from which proceeded a number of gutters which they had laid along the intermediate space, throwing...
Page 98 - In short, their houses are tight and tolerably warm, but they know nothing of chambers, halls, and closetings. They kindle and keep their fires in the middle of their houses, from one end to the other, and the opening in the crown of the roof lets out the smoke. From sixteen to eighteen families frequently dwell in one house, according to its size. The fire being kept in the middle, the people lay on either side thereof, and each family has its own place.
Page 94 - These poles might have been for a long house, but the general impression is of a round one. He proceeds to say, " Two Families will live comfortably and lovingly in a little round house of some fourteen or sixteen foot over, and so more and more families in proportion.
Page 93 - Eaters, a people so called (living between 300 and 400 miles west into the land) from their only Mihtuchquash, that is trees : They are Meneaters, they set no corne, but live on the bark of Chestnut and Walnut and other fine trees: They dry and eat this bark with the fat of beasts, and sometimes men . . .
Page 8 - Catalogue of the Cabinet of Natural History of the State of New York and of the Historical and Antiquarian Collection annexed thereto.
Page 100 - ... and repose ourselves during our stay with them; which was in the two end apartments of this large house. The Indians that came with us were placed over against us. This cabin is about eighty feet long and seventeen broad...
Page 111 - ... in a singular manner. First they lay along on the ground large logs of wood, and frequently smaller logs upon the lower logs, which serve for the foundation of the work. Then they place strong oak palisades in the ground on both sides of the foundation, the upper ends of which cross each other, and are joined together. In the upper cross of the palisade they then place the bodies of trees, which makes the work strong and firm.
Page 7 - Mineralogy of New York; comprising detailed descriptions of the minerals hitherto found in the State of New York, and notices of their uses in the arts and agriculture, il.
Page 86 - ... Ph.D. LL.D. - Watkins 1914 PLINY T. SEXTON LL.B. LL.D. - ... Palmyra 1912 T. GUILFORD SMITH MACE LL.D. - - - Buffalo 1918 WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM MA Ph.D. LL.D. - - Syracuse 1910 CHARLES A. GARDINER Ph.DLHD LL.DDCL New York 1915 ALBERT VANDER VEER MDMA Ph.D.
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Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America Edwin Tappan Adney,Howard I. Chapelle No preview available - 2007 |