Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1895)
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology · Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 426
also how the customs of a people react inevitably upon themselves for good or for evil. In the case of the confederacies above mentioned the very abolition of war between certain units increased the power of the ageregate body and at the same time their temptation to use this advantage in the… … Fic. 103.—Head of a Creek warrior. (After leather with which to repair his Romans) é ; = moccasins. His weapons consisted in earlier times of a bow and arrows, a knife and a tomahawk hanging at the side, and a war club stuck through his belt. Adair mentions a javelin which would be a short spear or…
Ethnology · Indians
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