[Footnote 9: Ritos Antiguos, Sacrificios e Idolatrias de los Indios de la Nueva Espana, in the Coleccion de Documentos Ineditos para la Historia de Espana, Tom. 53, p. 300.]
[Footnote 10: A Study of the Manuscript Troano. By Cyrus Thomas,
Ph.D., with an Introduction by D.G. Brinton, M.D., p. xxvii.
(Washington, 1883.)]
[Footnote 11: "Tenian libros de pergaminos que hacian de los cueros de venados, tan anchos como una mano o mas, e tan luengos como diez o doce passos, e mas e menos, que se encogian e doblaban e resumian en el tamano e grandeza de una mano por sus dobleces uno contra otro (a manera de reclamo); y en aquestos tenian pintados sus caracteres o figuras de tinta roxa o negra, de tal manera que aunque no eran letura ni escritura, significaban y se entendian por ellas todo lo que querian muy claramente."—Oviedo, Historia General y Natural de Indias, Lib. XLII, cap. I.]
[Footnote 12: "Une ecriture consistant en raies tracees sur de petites planchettes."—Alcide D'Orbigny, L'Homme Americain, Tomo L, p. 170, on the authority of Viedma, Informe general de la Provincia de Santa Cruz, MS.]
[Footnote 13: Legends and Tales of the Eskimo. (Edinburgh and
London, 1875.)]
[Footnote 14: Pok, Kalalek avalangnek, etc., Nongme, 1857; or, Pok, en Groenlaender, som har reist og ved sin Hjemkomst, etc. Efter gamle Handskrifter fundne hos Groenlaendere ved Godthaab. Godthaab, 1857.]
[Footnote 15: Kaladlit Assilialit, etc. See Thomas W. Field, Indian Bibliography, p. 199. (New York, 1873.)]
[Footnote 16: First printed in The American Whig Review, New York,
Feb. 1849; reprinted in The Indian Miscellany, edited by W.W.
Beach, Albany, 1877. I have not been able to find the original.]
[Footnote 17: Horatio Hale, The Iroquois Book of Rites.
(Philadelphia, 1883.) It is No. II of my "Library of Aboriginal American
Literature."
The introductory essay, in ten chapters, treats at considerable length of the ethnology and history of the Huron-Iroquois nations, the Iroquois League and its founders (Hiawatha, Dekanawidah, and their associates), the origin of the Book of Rites, the composition of the Federal Council, the clan system, the laws of the League, and the historical traditions relating to it, the Iroquois character and public policy, and the Iroquois language. A map prefixed to the work shows the location of the United Nations and of the surrounding tribes.]