Hochelagans and Mohawks eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 24 pages of information about Hochelagans and Mohawks.

Hochelagans and Mohawks eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 24 pages of information about Hochelagans and Mohawks.

[4] Relation of 1642.

[5] Similar armour, though highly elaborated, is to be seen in the suits of Japanese warriors, made of cords and lacquered wood woven together.

[6] Relation of 1642, p. 36.

[7] Two of the Huron nations settled in Canada West about 1400; another about 1590; the fourth in 1610.  See Relations,—­W.M.  Beauchamp.

[8] Dr. Kellogg, whose collection is very large and his studies valuable, writes me as follows:  “In 1886 Mr. Frey sent me a little box of Indian pottery from his vicinity (the Mohawk Valley).  It contained chiefly edge pieces of jars, whose ornamentation outside near the top was in lines, and nearly every one of these pieces also had the deep finger nail indentation.  I spread these out on a board.  Many had also the small circle ornamentation, made perhaps by the end of a hollow bone.  This pottery I have always called Iroquois.  At two sites near Plattsburg this type prevails.  But otherwise whenever we have found this type we have looked on it curiously.  It is not the type prevailing here.  The type here has ornamentations consisting of dots and dotted lines, dots in lines, scallop stamps, etc.  These dots on a single jar are hundreds and perhaps thousands in number.  Even in Vermont the Iroquois type is abundant.  This confirms what Champlain’s Indian friends told him about the country around the mountains in the east (i.e. in Vermont) being occupied by their enemies....  The pottery here indicates a much closer relation with that at Hochelaga than with that at Palatine Bridge (Mohawk Valley, N.Y.).”

[9] Journal, Vol.  I., pp. 162-4.

[10] Journal Historique d’un Voyage a L’Am., Lettre VI.

[11] Journal, end of Letter XII.

[12] Hist. du Canada, Vol.  I., p. 92.

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