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Page 109
... tribes early in this cen- tury , all the tribes had lost their wampums , excepting only the Cape Breton Micmacs , who declined to give him detailed infor- mation on the forms , functions , or meanings of their belts . In the other ...
... tribes early in this cen- tury , all the tribes had lost their wampums , excepting only the Cape Breton Micmacs , who declined to give him detailed infor- mation on the forms , functions , or meanings of their belts . In the other ...
Page 111
... tribes . The belt marked " b " consists of five rows . It is said to repre- sent the " union of the four eastern tribes in their local alliance ” . It has a dark background denoting former hostility among the tribes , lightened on the ...
... tribes . The belt marked " b " consists of five rows . It is said to repre- sent the " union of the four eastern tribes in their local alliance ” . It has a dark background denoting former hostility among the tribes , lightened on the ...
Page 112
... tribes were ready they assembled at the village of the bereaved tribe , returning to the council there the mourning belt which was sent out as the summons in the first place . Such strings as the specimen illustrated were mere secondary ...
... tribes were ready they assembled at the village of the bereaved tribe , returning to the council there the mourning belt which was sent out as the summons in the first place . Such strings as the specimen illustrated were mere secondary ...
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19th century Abenaki acculturated Albany and Attawapiskat Algonquian Conference American animals Attawapiskat bags bark Basil beads beadwork belt Big Trout Lake birch bark scrolls birchbark bird canoe ceremonial hide culture d'une decorated deux dialect dubitative early England English European example Fort Albany Fort George gélinotte George Gladys Gladys Tantaquidgeon gunwale Hudson's Bay Company hunting Indians Iroquois Island James Bay Jocko land language langue legend linguistic manitou Maniwaki medicine Micmac Mide Midewiwin missionary Mistassini Mohegan Montagnais Moose Factory motifs Museum myths Nanabozho Nantucket narrative Native nombre non-Indian North noun obviative Ojibwa Ontario oral history orthography Ottawa paper patterns Penobscot pigs prefix preverbs Québec Rasles records REFERENCES ribs River root Saulteaux scrolls semantic Sheshatshiu Shinnecock speakers Speck spruce Swampy Cree Tantaquidgeon tion Toronto trade traditional tribes University variant verb stem village vowel Wabanaki wampum Watkins William