The Abnakis and Their History. Or Historical Notices on the Aborigines Of Acadia

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xi, [1]blank, [11]-171 pp. with an additional wood-engraved title page. Includes 8 tinted lithographed plates, 9 wood-engraved plates, & numerous text illustrations. Hardcover in original green cloth. First Edition. Not Ex-Lib. This work includes chapters on the origins of the Abnakis, manners and language, hand-writing, villages in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, religion and superstition, public life, astronomy and division of time, domestic life, present condition, character, vindication of their character against accusations of cruelty and treachery, division of the parties amongst the Indians of Maine and the Indians of the British provinces, present treatment of native Americans east and west of the Mississippi, and the treatment of the California Indians. The tinted lithographs comprise views of the grave of brother Du Thet and the ruins of St. Savior s, the present state of the monument of the Rev Sebastian Râle, Sibayk Alnambay Udenek Pleasant Point Indian Village, Corpus Christi`s day at the Old-Town Indian village on the Penobscot River, Penaubsket Alnambay Udenek - Old-Town Indian village, Lewis Island Indian village on the Schoodic Lakes, the death of Father Râle killed by the English and Mohawks at Norridgewock, Au. 23, 1724, Old Point on the Kennebec in Maine, with Râle`s monument. Vetromile was a missionary in Maine. TPL 4546. Field 1602. Lande S2273. Not in Sabin. N° de ref. del artículo 100770

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