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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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lcedos Spanish Geography, under the name of Ajoues, they are mentioned asa tribe of Louisiana, for whose government a garrison had been kept on the Missouri. Mr. Irvin and Mr. Hamilton, to whose joint jjaper herewith annexed, attention isinvited, are missionaries on the Missouri river, to the Iowa and a party of the Sactribe. They are in the service of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, whichis located, as its central point of action, in the city of New York, under the super-intendence, for many years past, of Walter Lowrie, Esq. The original outlines of the Indian map which is herewith exhibited, (Plate 30,) isdue to those gentlemen, and is a singularly interesting document in Iowa history. Itwas drawn in the rough, by Waw-non-que-skoon-a, with a Ijlack-lead-jjencil, on a largesheet of white paper, furnished at tlie mission-house, and has been reduced in size, andits rigid lines adapted to the surveys of the public lauds on the Missouri and Missis- Buckinfrliam Smiths Trans.
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>-. .J 3 ? ^A - ■7~ %. Vt-I ^ ^ ^ i- Zl J ^ :: E o-^. ^ = C >^ O i ^ .= O ^ £• HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT. 257 sippi. It furnishes a practical and affirmative reply to query No. 31, on the capacityof the Indians to execute geographical charts. The original is retained in the IndianBureau. Tlie object of Vv^aw-non-que-skoon-a was to denote the places where the Towas hadlived during the sixteen migrations which preceded their residence at their presentlocation, the Missouri; and, in truth, it nearly exhausts their history. The marks todenote a fixed residence, are a symbol for a lodge. These are carefully preserved,with their exact i-elative position. Their order, as given, is also preserved by figures.Could eras be affixed to these residences, it would give entire accuracy to the modempart of their history. As it is, it depicts some curious facts in the history of predatory and erratic tribes,showing how they sometimes crossed their own track, and demonstrates the immensedistan

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