Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, المجلد 42U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 |
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Abihka According Adair Aktayatci Alabama Alligator ancient Atasi ball ground ball post Bartram Bear Beaver belonged black drink brother busk busk ground cabin called Cane Ceremonial Ground Cherokee Chiaha Chickasaw Coosa council Coweta Creek towns dance Deer Eagle enemy Ethn Eufaula father fiksiko fire four Gatschet hadjo Hawkins heniha Hilibi Hist Hitchiti Hobayi husband imała Indians Inds informant isti Jackson Lewis Kapitca Kasihta Kealedji killed Koasati later Liwahali Lower Creeks medicine pots Mikasuki miko hoyanidja Milfort mound Muskogee Natchez nation Okchai Okfuskee Otciapofa Pahosa Pakan tallahassee Panther person phratry Potato probably Raccoon river says Schoolcraft seats Seminole side sister Skunk Snake Square Ground sticks Stiggins Swan Tami tåstånȧgi Tastanagis Tciloki tcokofa term Timucua told tribe Tukabahchee Tulsa Turkey Tuskegee Upper Creeks warriors White clans wife Wildcat Wind clan Wiogufki Woksi Wolf woman women yahola Yuchi
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الصفحة 340 - Such is their over-boiling revengeful temper, that they utterly contemn all those things as imaginary trifles, if they are so happy as to get the scalp of the murderer, or enemy, to satisfy the craving ghosts of their deceased relations.
الصفحة 516 - They pretend to draw omens from it, and firmly believe that it is the mean of obtaining temporal blessings, and averting temporal evils. The men, both in their summer and winter hunt, sacrifice in the woods a large fat piece of the first buck they kill, and frequently the whole carcass. This they offer up, either as a thanksgiving for the recovery of health, and for their former success in hunting, or that the Divine care and goodness may still be continued to...
الصفحة 418 - Though the same things operate alike upon the organs of the human body, and produce an uniformity of sensations; yet weakness, or constancy of mind derived from habit, helps in a great measure, either to heighten, or lessen the sense of pain. By this, the afflicted party has learned to stifle nature, and shew...
الصفحة 392 - The Muscogulges bury their deceased in the earth. They dig a four-square deep pit under the cabin or couch which the deceased lay on, in his house, lining the grave with cypress bark, where they place the corpse in a sitting posture, as if it were alive; depositing with him his gun, tomahawk, pipe, and such other matters as he had the greatest value for in his life-time. His eldest wife, or the queen dowager, has the second choice of his possessions, and the remaining effects are divided amongst...
الصفحة 517 - always throw a small piece of the fattest of the meat into the fire, when they are eating, and frequently before they begin to eat.
الصفحة 372 - ... the women to the females of the family of the bride. If they accept of them the match is made; and the man may then go to her house as soon as he chooses. And when he has built a house, made his crop and gathered it in, then made his hunt and brought home the meat, and put all this in the possession of his wife, the ceremony ends, and they are married ; or as they express it, the woman is bound.
الصفحة 439 - Indians are exceedingly ready with their weapons, and so warlike and nimble, that they have no fear of footmen; for if these charge them they flee, and when they turn their backs they are presently upon them. They avoid nothing more easily than the flight of an arrow. They never remain quiet, but are continually running, traversing from place to place, so that neither crossbow nor arquebuse can be aimed at them. Before a Christian can make a single shot with either, an Indian will discharge three...
الصفحة 19 - Clerical. — The correspondence and other clerical work of the office has been conducted by Miss May S. Clark, clerk to the chief. Mrs. Frances S. Nichols assisted the editor. There has been no change in the scientific or clerical force. Respectfully submitted. J. WALTER FEWKES, Chief, Bureau of American Ethnology.
الصفحة 181 - ... Choo-co-thluc-co, (big house), the town house or public square, consists of four square buildings of one story, facing each other, forty by sixteen feet, eight feet pitch; the entrance at each corner. Each building is a wooden frame, supported on posts set in the ground, covered with slabs, open in front like a piazza, divided into three rooms, the back and ends clayed, up to the plates. Each division is divided lengthwise, into two seats; the front, two feet high, extending back half way, covered...
الصفحة 178 - They first fix in the ground a circular range of posts or trunks of trees, about six feet high, at equal distances, which are notched at top, to receive into them from one to another, a range of beams or wall plates; within this is another circular order of very large and strong pillars, above twelve feet high, notched in like manner at top, to receive another range of wall plates...