 ... a great spacious house, wherein only some few (that are, as we may term them, priests) come. Thither, at certain known times, resort all their people, and offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives,...  The Serpent Symbol, and the Worship of the Reciprocal Principles of Nature ... - Page 123by Ephraim George Squier - 1851 - 254 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 562 pages
...people,' and offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, etc., all which are cast by the priests into...offering every man bringeth freely ; and the more he is known to bring, hath the better esteem of all men. This, the other Indians about us approve of... | |
 | Samuel Farmar Jarvis - 1820 - 124 pages
...offer almost all the riches they have to their Gaits, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beades, knives, fyc. all which are cast by the priests into a great fire...freely, and the more hee is knowne to bring, hath the belter esteeme of all men." Good News from New-England, &c. Purcbas, vol. 4. lib. x. chap. vp 1867-8,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1832 - 384 pages
...offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, &c. all which are cast by the priests into a great fire that they make in the midst of the hbuse, and there consume a to ashes. To this offering every man bringeth freely, and the more he is... | |
 | 1841 - 552 pages
...offer1623, almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, &c., all which are cast by the priests into a great fire...offering every man bringeth freely ; and the more he is known to bring, hath the better esteem of all men. This the other Indians about us approve of... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1846 - 336 pages
...offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, &c., all which are cast by the priests into a great fire...offering every man bringeth freely ; and the more he is known to bring, hath the better esteem of all men. This the other Indians about us approve of... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 pages
...as kettles, skins, hatchets, beades, knives, $c. all which are cast by the priests into agreatjire that they make in the midst of the house, and there...knowne to bring, hath the better esteeme of all men." Good News from New-England, &c. Purchas, vol. 4. lib. x. chap. vp 1867-8. NOTE T. " One would think... | |
 | Nathaniel Morton - 1855 - 558 pages
...people, and offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, etc., all which are cast by the priests into a great lire that they make in the midst of the house, and there consumed to ashes. To this offering every... | |
 | Samuel Foster Haven - 1856 - 596 pages
...offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, &c., all which are cast by the priests into a great fire that they make in the midst of the house." They 1 Some of the copper implements delineated by Messrs. Squier and Davis were from Canada. Smith.... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 590 pages
...people, and offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, etc., all which are cast by the priests into...great fire that they make in the midst of the house." 1 The analogies, however, which appear to be traceable in such practices of modern tribes remote from... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 520 pages
...people, and offer almost all the riches they have to their gods, as kettles, skins, hatchets, beads, knives, etc., all which are cast by the priests into a great fire that they make in the midst of the house."1 The analogies, however, which appear to be traceable in such practices of modern tribes remote... | |
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