. A history of Canada and of the other British provinces of North America . Hskp. X.] INtHAN TftrfeES OP CANADA, 125 ndtli or without the fur. Some Indian tribes derived theirnames from the mode of Avearing these skins. Thus theRocky Mountain Indians were called Chippewayan. from themanner in which they wore the ekins gathered round tlieirrecks. The chief ornaments of the Indians were feathers,porcupine quills, bones, or shells j and afterwards, when theEuropeans came among them, glass l»eads and trinkets. Theytattooed, as well as painted, their faces and bodies. 3, HieroglypMcs.—^Indian treat
. A history of Canada and of the other British provinces of North America . Hskp. X.] INtHAN TftrfeES OP CANADA, 125 ndtli or without the fur. Some Indian tribes derived theirnames from the mode of Avearing these skins. Thus theRocky Mountain Indians were called Chippewayan. from themanner in which they wore the ekins gathered round tlieirrecks. The chief ornaments of the Indians were feathers,porcupine quills, bones, or shells j and afterwards, when theEuropeans came among them, glass l»eads and trinkets. Theytattooed, as well as painted, their faces and bodies. 3, HieroglypMcs.—^Indian treaties were generally hierogly-phical, as were also all their recorded deeds. The accompanyinghieroglyphics give«m account of a war- f ©^ 4Hke foray. The ninej>addles in the canoeiodicate nine war-riors ; the figuresrepresent prisoners,irith a tomahawk, Hieroglyphical Record of a War Party, how, arrow, war-club, &c. One prisoner is beheaded ; another,with the shading below, is a woman. The tire and animal?indicate a council held by chiefs of the bear and turtle
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