The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, and the State of Aboriginal Society in the Scale of Civilization Represented by Them: A Series of Historical and Ethnological StudiesR. Clarke Company, 1890 - 369 pages |
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aboriginal Aboriginal Remains Alabama America antiquities archæological Arkansas Author's collection beads beautiful bone bowl Bureau of Ethnology burial mounds carved catlinite chipped clay color copper crania Cumberland river Cumberland valley discovered discs doubtless earth-works engraved evidently exploring F. W. Putnam feet figures flint Georgia gorgets handles Harpeth river head houses Humphreys county illustrated in Fig images inches in diameter inches long Jones Maury county Mexico Middle Tennessee Mississippi valley Missouri mound builders mound building tribes Nashville nearly nessee Noel cemetery North objects Ohio one-half ornaments Peabody Museum pendants photo-engraved pictograph Plate polished pottery prehistoric probably Prof pueblo represented in Fig river rude sections shell gorgets shown in Fig similar Smith county Smithsonian southern Indians specimens steatite stem hole Stewart county Stone Grave race stone implements Sumner county Tennessee Historical Society terra cotta totem tube pipes types vessels of pottery vicinity of Nashville village ware
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Page 129 - ... of every Mandan lodge, and are manufactured by the women of this tribe in great quantities, and modelled into a thousand forms and tastes. They are made by the hands of the women, from a tough black clay, and baked in kilns which are made for the purpose, and are nearly equal in hardness to our own manufacture of pottery ; though they have not yet got the art of glazing, which would be to them a most valuable secret. They make them so strong and serviceable, however, that they hang them over...
Page 128 - They make earthen pots of very different sizes, so as to contain from two to ten gallons ; large pitchers to carry water ; bowls, dishes, platters, basins, and a prodigious number of other vessels of such antiquated forms as would be tedious to describe and impossible to name. Their method of glazing them is, they place them over a large fire of smoky pitch-pine, which makes them smooth, black, and firm.
Page 60 - In closing this chapter, what, it may be asked, are we to believe was the character of the race to which for the purpose of clearness we have for the time being applied the term,
Page 159 - When these vessels are large, as is the case for the manufacture of sugar, they are suspended by grape-vines, which, wherever exposed to the fire, are constantly kept covered with moist clay. Sometimes, however, the rims are made strong, and project a little inwardly quite round the vessel so as to admit of their being sustained by flattened pieces of wood slid underneath these projections and extending across their centres."* Lastly, I will quote here the remarks made by Catlin relating to the fabrication...
Page 129 - ... be to them a most valuable secret. They make them so strong and serviceable, however, that they hang them over the fire as we do our iron pots, and boil their meat in them with perfect success. I have seen some few specimens of such manufacture, which have been dug up in Indian mounds and tombs in the southern and middle states, placed in our Eastern Museums and looked upon as a great wonder, when here this novelty is at once done away with, and the whole mystery ; where women can be seen handling...
Page 216 - Then taking one of these flakes he gives it an approximately right shape by striking it with a rough hammer, then slips over his left hand a piece of buckskin with a hole to fit over the thumb (this buckskin is to prevent the hand from being wounded), and in his right hand he takes a pair of buck-horn pincers tied together at the point with a thong.
Page 322 - Tablets of about four inches diameter, which they polish as smooth as the other, and sometimes they etch or grave thereon Circles, Stars, a Half-Moon, or any other figure suitable to their fancy.
Page 265 - They are kept with the strictest religious care from one generation to another, and are exempted from being buried with the dead. They belong to the town where they are used, and are carefully preserved.
Page 9 - We must give it up, that speechless past; whether fact or chronology, doctrine or mythology; whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America; at Thebes or Palenque, on Lycian shore or Salisbury Plain: lost is lost; gone is gone for ever.
Page 13 - All their proceedings were conducted with great deliberation, and were distinguished for order, decorum, and solemnity. In eloquence, in dignity, and in all the characteristics of profound policy, they surpassed an assembly of feudal barons, and were perhaps not far inferior to the great Amphyctionic Council of Greece.