[502] League of the Iroquois, p. 364.
[503] For example, the Ojibwas used the lance or spear, She-mä′-gun, pointed with flint or bone.
[504] The Creeks made earthen vessels holding from two to ten gallons (Adair’s History of American Indians, p. 424); and the Iroquois ornamented their jars and pipes with miniature human faces attached as buttons. This discovery was recently made by Mr. F. A. Cushing, of the Smithsonian Institution.
[505] Herrera, l. c., iv, 16.
[506] Ib., iii, 13; iv, 16, 137. Clavigero, ii, 165.
[507] Clavigero, ii, 238. Herrera, ii, 145; iv, 133.
[508] Hakluyt’s Coll. of Voyages, l. c., iii, 377.
[509] The Rev. Samuel Gorman, a missionary among the Laguna Pueblo Indians, remarks in an address before the Historical Society of New Mexico (p. 12), that “the right of property belongs to the female part of the family, and descends in that line from mother to daughter. Their land is held in common, as the property of the community, but after a person cultivates a lot he has personal claim to it, which he can sell to one of the community.... Their women, generally, have control of the granary, and they are more provident than their Spanish neighbors about the future. Ordinarily they try to have a year’s provisions on hand. It is only when two years of scarcity succeed each other, that Pueblos, as a community, suffer hunger.”
[510] Σεμνύνεται γὰρ Σόλων ἐν τούτοις, ὅτι τῆς τε προϋποκείμενης γῆς
Ὅρους ἀνεῖλε πολλαχῆ πεπηγότας·