. Contributions to North American ethnology. Vol. I-VII, IX. Indians of North America; Ethnology. HOrSES OF THE NYACKS OF LOXC^ ISLAND. 119 descent, as father and mother with their oftspring. Their bread is maize pounded on a bkick by a stone, but not fine. This is mixed with water and made into a cake, which tliey bake under the hot aslies. Tliey gave us a small piece when we entered, and although the grains were not ripe, and it was half baked and coarse grains, we nevertheless had to eat it, or, at least, not throw it away before them, which they would have regai'ded as a great sin, or a gr
. Contributions to North American ethnology. Vol. I-VII, IX. Indians of North America; Ethnology. HOrSES OF THE NYACKS OF LOXC^ ISLAND. 119 descent, as father and mother with their oftspring. Their bread is maize pounded on a bkick by a stone, but not fine. This is mixed with water and made into a cake, which tliey bake under the hot aslies. Tliey gave us a small piece when we entered, and although the grains were not ripe, and it was half baked and coarse grains, we nevertheless had to eat it, or, at least, not throw it away before them, which they would have regai'ded as a great sin, or a great ;^ There is nothing in these statements forbidding the supposition that tlu' liousehold described practiced conmuinism in living. The composition (if the household shows that it was formed on the principle of gentile kin, while the several families cooked at the different fires, which was the usual practice in the difterent tribes; the stores were probably common, and the household under a matron. It will be noticed also that they gave him maize bread when he first entered the house. He little supposed that it was in obedience to a law or usage universal in the Indian Fi,,, 1 .'. ii-, ,:. ..', .,i I! : -riH ,:,-In»iii(. During the greater part of the year the Iroquois residetl in villages. The size of the village was estimated by the number of the houses, and the size of the house by the number of fires it contained. One of the largest of the Seneca-Iroquois villages, situated at Mendon, near Rochester, N. Y., is thus described by Mr. Greenbalgh, who visited it in 1G77 : "Tio- tohatton is on the brink or edge of a hill, has not much cleared ground, is near the river Tiotohatton [outlet of Honeoye Lake], which signifies bending. ' Journal, olc, ji. 1^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfec
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