. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . / (ACTUAL SIZE) TOBACCO PIPES OF THE POTOMAC VALLEY CHESAPEAKE-POTOMAC GROUP HiiMEs] POTTERY OF IROQUOIAN TRIBES 159 POTTERY OF l^HE IROQUOIAN FROVINOE The Iroquoiax Tribes The g-roup of tribes now classed, on tlic basis of language, as Iro-i|U()ian. eonstituted one of the most important grand divisions of theaborigines of North America. The central culminating event in theirhistory- was the formation of the league, which included at first fivenations and finally six. The seat of this g-reat g
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . / (ACTUAL SIZE) TOBACCO PIPES OF THE POTOMAC VALLEY CHESAPEAKE-POTOMAC GROUP HiiMEs] POTTERY OF IROQUOIAN TRIBES 159 POTTERY OF l^HE IROQUOIAN FROVINOE The Iroquoiax Tribes The g-roup of tribes now classed, on tlic basis of language, as Iro-i|U()ian. eonstituted one of the most important grand divisions of theaborigines of North America. The central culminating event in theirhistory- was the formation of the league, which included at first fivenations and finally six. The seat of this g-reat g-roup of connnunitieswas in New York, but their sti-ong arm was felt at times from NovaScotia on the east to the Mississippi on the west, and from the drain-age of Hudson bay on the north almost to the Gulf on the south. Therewere several outstanding tribes of this stock not absorhed bv theleague—the Conestogas on the lower Susquehaima. the Cherokces inthe Carolinas and Georgia, the Wyandots along th(^ St Lawrence andthe Great lakes, and others of less prominence in other sections. Allsa\e the
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