Notes on the Iroquois / or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New-York

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SENATE DOCUMENT, TWENTY-FOUR.

MEMORANDUM OF PAPERS.

APPENDIX.

STATE OF NEW-YORK. No. 24. IN SENATE, January 22 1846. COMMUNICATION

REPORT

SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT. Of Henry R. Schoolcraft to the Secretary

I. HISTORICAL AND ETHNOLOGICAL MINUTES. MADE ON TAKING THE

II. ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE IROQUOIS, AS A DISTINCT PEOPLE.

III. EPOCH AND PRINCIPLES OF THE IROQUOIS LEAGUE. [ a. ] Considerations.

IV. ARCHAEOLOGY.

V. ANCIENT STATE OF INDIAN ART.

VI. RELICS OF ABORIGINAL ART IN WESTERN NEW-YORK. [Antique insignia, amulets, implements and ornaments.]

VII. ORAL TRADITIONS OF THE IROQUOIS HISTORICAL AND SYMBOLICAL.

VIII. TOPICAL INQUIRIES.

IX. MISCELLANEOUS TRAITS.

X. MORAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION AND PROSPECTS.

DEAF AND DUMB, IDIOTS, LUNATICS AND BLIND.

APPENDIX. (2)

(A.) Letter from the Secretary of State to Henry R. Schoolcraft, and c.

(B.) Extracts from a Rough Diary of Notes by the way.

MEMORANDA, NEW-YORK, JULY 1. ANTIQUITIES OF NEW-YORK.

(C.) Letter from J. V. H. Clark to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(D.) Letter from Mr. Cusick to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(E.) Letter from S. A. Goodwin to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(F.) Letter from Frederick Follet to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(G.) Letter from C. Dewey to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(H.) Letter from Rev. Gilbert Rockwood to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(I.) Letter from Rev. Asher Bliss to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(K.) Letter from Rev. William Hall to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(L.) Letter from Rev. Wm. McMurray to H. R. Schoolcraft.

(M.) Letter from Mr. Richard U. Shearman to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(N.) Letter from Mr. D. E. Walker to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(O.) Letter from H. C. Van Schaack, Esq. to Henry R. Schoolcraft.

(P.) Letter from L. T. Morgan, Esq., to H. R. Schoolcraft.

NOTE.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.


NOTES ON THE IROQUOIS:

OR, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE

STATISTICS, ABORIGINAL HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES AND GENERAL ETHNOLOGY

OF

WESTERN NEW-YORK.


By HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT,

Hon. Mem. of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen; Hon. Mem. of the Royal Geographical Society of London; Vice-President of the American Ethnological Society at New-York; Member of the American Philosophical, of the American Antiquarian, and of the American Geological Societies; Hon. Mem. of the New-York Historical, of the Georgia Historical, and of the Rhode-Island Historical Societies, &c., &c., &c.


NEW-YORK:
BARTLETT & WELFORD,
ASTOR HOUSE.

1846.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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