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Title: Indians of Manhattan Island and vicinity /
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925.
Subjects: Manhattan Indians Indians of North America
Publisher: (New York) : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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marked by periodic ceremonies,one of which has come down to the present day among the modern rem-nants of the Shinnecock of Long Island and the Mohegan of (onnecticul.This is the June Meeting, which was formerly a ceremony held for thegreen corn. The Delaware in Oklahoma and Canada still perform anumber of other annual ceremonies. The old writers tell us that each Indian had some such name asBucks Horn. Wildcat. or Rattlesnake, and that when lie died itwas considered sacrilegious ever to mention his name again. It is alsoknown that polygamy was practised by the local Indians. The Archaeolouical Exhibits. So much for the ethnology of the Manhattan and their neighbors.Let us now turn to their archaeology as set forth by the specimens onview in the entrance of the Woodland Hall. On entering the Eastern Woodland Indian Hall the visitor will findthat the first table sections are devoted to an exhibition, as comprehen-sive as possible, showing the life of the natives in prehistoric times by
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FINCHS ROCK HOUSE IXDIAXS or MANHATTAN ISLAM) means of specimens obtained from the ancienl village ;m<l camp sites.Here may be seen remains of t he various animals, fish, and shell-fish uponwhich the Indians depended for subsistence; fragments of nuts, coin,loots, and other food products, preserved by charring, and obtained fromancient fireplaces; and such implements as arrow points of antler andstone, net-sinkers of stone, and stone hoes for tilling the field, all illusl ra-tive of primitive methods of hunting and agriculture. Implements ex-hibited in the same case show the preparation of animal and vegetablefood with primitive utensils, while close by are tools used by the Indiansin preparing skins. The manufactures of the Indians are illustrated inthe immediately adjacent section. A progressive series of implements shows the making of an arrowpoint from a simple quartz pebble such as might be picked up anywhereon the shore, with the various stages leading to the finished point;

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