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Title: The Iroquois : or, the bright side of Indian character
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Johnson, Anna C. (Anna Cummings), 1818-1892
Subjects: Iroquois Indians
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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t civil-ized people should have so generally adopted their mostfilthy and uncivilized habit! Maple sugar must have been in use among them forcenturies, as is proved by their festival to give thanksto the maple. Beans and squashes grew wild all overAmerica, and were rendered fruitful by cultivation amongthe Iroquois. In the valley of the Genesee, the firstwhite people who came, of whom we have any definiteknowledge, found large orchards, and in some places peachtrees, which were of Indian cultivation. They made a tea of the fine green boughs of the hem-lock steeped in water, which I have drank when amongthem in preference to any other. Their cooking utensils were very few, and housewiferyoccupied very little of the Indian matrons time. Shetilled the soil, and from the simple manner of tilling it,her labor was very light. The cradle or baby-frame, the birch canoe, and themoccasin were the prettiest articles of Indian manufacture,though since their intercourse with white people they have
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MOCASIN. INDIAN BEAUTY. 81 added an infinite variety of boxes, bags, and baskets,which they embroider both richly and tastefully. IndeedI know not if the women of any people can excel themin fancy work. Where any part of their costume iswrought, the devices are always neat, and exhibit greatskill in the blending of colors. A full Indian dress isvery rich and costly, being mostly of the finest broadcloth,embroidered with beads around the borders, and with or-naments of silver around the neck and down the front.Originally they were clothed entirely in the skins of ani-mals, but the new materials are made exactly in the oldfashion. The kilt was very much like that worn by theHighlander, and is richly embroidered. The leggin wasfastened above the knee, and fell loosely to the top of themoccasin, being also deeply embroidered. There were six dances, at which it was necessary towear a peculiar costume. The head-dress of the warriorswas adorned with plumes, and his girdle, gay with manycolor

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