Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and Character of the North American Natives, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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... the paint rubbed off their faces , their hawk - skins and plume - tufts torn from their heads , and their other ornaments , garments and all , not much more improved by the excursion . As soon as the horses could be stopped , they SPORTS .
... the paint rubbed off their faces , their hawk - skins and plume - tufts torn from their heads , and their other ornaments , garments and all , not much more improved by the excursion . As soon as the horses could be stopped , they SPORTS .
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... face black ; to wear a cap or head - dress of some kind ; and to follow the older warriors , walking in their tracks instead of preceding them . He must never scratch his head with his fingers , nor suffer any other person to touch the ...
... face black ; to wear a cap or head - dress of some kind ; and to follow the older warriors , walking in their tracks instead of preceding them . He must never scratch his head with his fingers , nor suffer any other person to touch the ...
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... faces who are making their first excursions . All sleep with their faces towards their own country ; and on no consid- eration make any change of attitude ; and no two lie under the same blanket . If on their marches they ever sit down ...
... faces who are making their first excursions . All sleep with their faces towards their own country ; and on no consid- eration make any change of attitude ; and no two lie under the same blanket . If on their marches they ever sit down ...
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... faces , without stir- ring ; and they make their approaches in the same posture , creeping upon their hands and feet till they are within bow - shot of those they have destined to destruction . On a signal given by the chief warrior ...
... faces , without stir- ring ; and they make their approaches in the same posture , creeping upon their hands and feet till they are within bow - shot of those they have destined to destruction . On a signal given by the chief warrior ...
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... third wore leggins ; a fourth , mocassins . The faces were painted in various figures and colors , -with red , green , yellow and black , -in lines , circles , stars and points , or all these together . In the centre DANCING . 51.
... third wore leggins ; a fourth , mocassins . The faces were painted in various figures and colors , -with red , green , yellow and black , -in lines , circles , stars and points , or all these together . In the centre DANCING . 51.
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Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1844 |
Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1833 |
Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1833 |
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Página 34 - Run for your life," cried the chief to him, " and don't talk now of building houses !" But the poor fellow still insisted, begging and praying to the Captain, who at last finding his exhortations vain, and fearing the consequences, turned his back upon him, and would not hear him any longer. Our mason now began to run, but received many a hard blow, one of which nearly brought him to the ground, which, if he had fallen, would at once have decided his fate.
Página 112 - By the sixth day he was able to walk about ; and within a month he grew quite well, except that he was troubled with a cough. Twenty years after his misfortune he was still alive. Another man, being on his wintering-ground, and from home, hunting beaver, was crossing a lake, covered with smooth ice, with two beavers on his back, when his foot slipped, and he fell. At his side, in his belt, was his axe, the blade of which came upon the joint of his wrist ; and, the weight of his body coming upon the...