The Position of Woman in Primitive Society: A Study of the Matriarchy

by C. Gasquoine Hartley

[52] Morgan, League of the Iroquois, p. 324. Heriot, op. cit., pp. 323, 329. Schoolcraft, op. cit., Vol. III, p. 191.

[53] Heriot, pp. 231-237. See also Report of an Official of Indian Affairs on two of the Iroquoian tribes, cited by Hartland. Primitive Paternity, Vol. I, p. 298.

[54] Charleroix, Vol. V, p. 48, quoted by Hartland, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 66.

[55] Powell, Rep. Bur. Ethn., I, 63.

[56] Owen: Musquakie Indians, p. 72.

[57] I have summarised the account of the Wyandot government as given by Hartland, who quotes from Powell’s “Wyandot Government,” First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1879-1880, pp. 61 ff.

[58] The Native Races of the Pacific States of South America, 5 vols., Vol. I, p. 555. See also Morgan.

[59] Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes, p. 262, gives an account of these houses. A similar plan of living is reported of the Maya Indians.

[60] Bancroft, op. cit., pp. 546, 547.

[61] Heriot, op. cit., p. 340.