[354] See Brackenridge's description of the Arikkara, and the chastity of the young women, in our volume vi, pp. 120-132.—Ed.
[355] Volumes v and vi of our series.—Ed.
[356] See our volume xv, pp. 150-157.—Ed.
[357] From John Irving's Indian Sketches it appears that Petulescharu did not succeed in wholly abolishing this custom.—Maximilian.
Comment by Ed. John T. Irving, Jr., accompanied United States Commissioner Henry L. Ellsworth, who was sent (1833) to arrange with the Pawnee for the well-being of the remnant of the Delaware tribe, that had been removed to the west of the Mississippi. His adventures, entitled Indian Sketches taken during an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes, appeared in Philadelphia in 1835.—Ed.
[358] See p. [355] for illustration of Arikkara bird-cage gourds.—Ed.
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