[ [100] See Loskiel, Geschichte der Mission, etc., pp. 32, 33; Heckewelder, History of the Indian Nations, chap. X.
[ [101] Dr. Charles C. Abbott, Primitive Industry, pp. 71, 207, 347, 379, 384, 390, 391. Dr. Abbott's suggestion that the bird's head seen on several specimens might represent the totem of the Turkey gens of the Lenape cannot be well founded, if Heckewelder is correct in saying that their totemic mark was only the foot of the fowl. Ind. Nations, p. 253.
[ [102] See Proceedings Amer. Philos. Soc., Vol. X.
[ [103] The subject is discussed, and comparative drawings of the native signatures reproduced, by Prof. D. B. Brunner, in his useful work, The Indians of Berks County, Pa., p. 68 (Reading, 1881).
[ [104] John Richardson's Diary, quoted in An Account of the Conduct of the Society of Friends toward the Indian Tribes, pp. 61, 62 (London, 1844).
[ [105] History and Statistics of the Indian Tribes, Vol. I, plate 47, B, and pages 353, 354
[ [106] "Amiable and benevolent," says Heckewelder, whose life he aided in saving on one occasion. Indian Nations, p. 285.
[ [107] E. de Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger, p. 469.
[ [108] Relation des Jesuites, 1646, p. 33
[ [109] Baraga, A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, s. v.