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Identifier: antiquitiesofsou00jone_0 (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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an edge. Wesuppose this to have been an agricultural tool. Large and roughly-chipped, leaf-shaped flint imple-ments, of which Figs. 3, 4, and 5, Plate XVII., maybe taken as types, are found in considerable numbers.These, we think, should be properly classed amongprimitive agricultural tools. None of them, however,so far as my observation extends, are as well formed orclearly marked as the notched implements from EastSt. Louis, so well described by Prof. Rau in the Smith-sonian Report for 1868.1 After favoring us with an account of the mannerin which the Louisiana Indians constructed their huts,Du Pratz2 says: Near all their habitations they havefields of maiz and of another nourishing grain calledClioupichoal, which grows without culture. For dress-ing their fields, they invented houghs which are formedin the shape of an l, having the lower part flat andsharp; and to take the husk from their corn they made 1 P. 401, et seq. 2 History of Louisiana, etc., vol. ii., p. 225. London, 1763.
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AM PHOTO-LITHOGRAPH I CCD HY.(OSBORNES PROCESS.) CEKEMONIES OF THE BOOS-KE-TAU. 303 large wooden mortars, by hollowing the trunks of treeswith fire. The corn having attained its maturity, and beingready for harvest, a day was named by the mico for thecelebration of the annual festival known among theCreeks as Boos-ke-tau. In Cussetuh, eight days werespent in conducting the prescribed ceremonies, whilein towns of lesser importance four days sufficed for theobservance of this memorable season of purification,thanksgiving, and rejoicing. On the morning of the first day,1 the warriors cleanthe yard of the square and sprinkle it with white sand-The a-cee, or decoction of the cassine yupon, is made.The fire-maker kindles the fire, as early as he can, byfriction. Four logs, each as long as a man can coverby extending his two arms, are cut and brought by thewarriors and placed in the centre of the square, end toend, thus forming a cross. The outer ends indicatethe cardinal points. In the cent

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  • booksubject:Indians_of_North_America
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