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Upper Yukon Native Customs and Folk-Lore Volume 56; V. 59-60

Upper Yukon Native Customs and Folk-Lore Volume 56; V. 59-60


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...year 995, still held its old position in the middle of the nineteenth century, but this mansion of Eric and the homes of his long dominant descendants have not favored us with one carven line or letter. Surely we must think that these people were not given to expressing themselves in that way. But human opposition and eagerness were certain to discover supposed runes and confirmatory vestiges in America when attention was once directed to the subject. Rafn's voluminous Antiquitates Americana; led the way with the Newport "tower" (since clearly shown to have been only Governor Arnold's windmill patterned on an older one in his former English home) and other equally random fancies. Longfellow embodied one of these speculations in a spirited ballad, immortalizing that squalid Fall River "skeleton in armor," whose copper breast-tablet and belt only antedated the ornaments found by Gosnold 1 in use on Cape Cod, with no hope at all of such honor. The Dighton rock-pictures, with the central row of tallymarks, have been many times published since the first copying by Dr. Danforth in 1680. The present rate of obliteration would have wiped them quite away before now, if existing conditions had been established then or a little earlier.' Schoolcraft obtained an erudite Algonquian reading from his Ojibway experts, although the tally marks baffled them, and these he called runes, but afterward withdrew the exception. As quoted by Colonel Mallery, his final verdict was: " It is of purely Indian origin, and is executed in the peculiar symbolic character of the Keekeevvin." These tally-like marks were still visible when I visited the rock in 1910, but might apparently have been made by any one who could carve the numeral I or an X. On the west...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130462005
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 184
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130462005
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 340 gr

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