Bulletin of the New York State Museum, Issues 70-77University of the State of New York, 1903 |
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Page 9 - This day there came unto the ship's side divers canoes, the Indians apparelled as aforesaid, with tobacco and pipes steeled with copper, skins, artificial strings and other trifles to barter ; one had hanging about his neck a plate of rich copper, in length a foot, in breadth half a foot for a breastplate, the ears of all the rest had pendants of copper.
Page 9 - They head some of their arrows herewith, much like our broad-arrow heads, very workmanly made. Their chains are many hollow pieces cemented together, each piece of the bigness of one of our reeds, a finger in length, ten or twelve of them together on a string, which they wear about their necks. Their collars they wear about their bodies, like bandoleers, a handful broad, all hollow pieces like the other, but somewhat shorter, four hundred pieces in a collar, very fine and evenly set together.
Page 120 - Catalogue of the Cabinet of Natural History of the State of New York and of the Historical and Antiquarian Collection annexed thereto.
Page 2 - Albany 1895 CHARLES R. SKINNER. MA LL.D. Superintendent of Public Instruction, ex officio 1897 CHESTER S. LORD MA LL.D. - - - Brooklyn 1900 THOMAS A. HENDRICK MA LL.D. - - Rochester 1901 BENJAMIN B. ODELL JR LL.D. Governor, ex officio 1901 ROBERT C. PRUYN MA - Albany 1902 WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM MA Ph.D.
Page 72 - Chamberlin, in the report above referred to, makes the tentative statement " that massive ice currents having their ulterior channels in the Champlain valley, on the one hand, and the St Lawrence on the other, swept around the Adirondacks and entered the Mohawk valley at either extremity, while a feebler current, at the hight of glaciation, probably passed over the Adirondacks and gave to the whole a southerly trend.
Page 81 - 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 27 - ... from her shoulder down to her wrist, on which were bands, forming a kind of mittens, worked together of wampum, in the same manner as the belts which they use when they deliver speeches. Her long plaited hair was confined by broad bands of silver, one band joining the other, yet not of the same size, but tapering from the head downwards and running at the lower end to a point.
Page 2 - Albany 1907 WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM MA Ph.D. LL.D. . . Syracuse 1910 CHARLES A. GARDINER Ph.DLHD LL.DDCL New York 1915 CHARLES S. FRANCIS BS Troy 1911 EDWARD LAUTERBACH MA New York 1909 EUGENE A.