 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1877 - 586 páginas
...retreat to hi." own clan ; or, as was often done, go and start a new matrimonial alliance in some other. The women were the great power among the clans, as...when occasion required, ' to knock off the horns,' »s it was technically called, from the head of a chief, and send him back tg the ranks of the warriors.... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1877 - 698 páginas
...retreat to his own clan ; or, as was often done, go and start a new matrimonial alliance in some other. The women were the great power among the clans, as...hesitate, when occasion required, ' to knock off the borns,' as it was technically called, from the head of a chief, and send him back to the ranks of the... | |
 | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - 1887 - 606 páginas
...Wright for many years a missionary among the Senecas asserts it in the following emphatic terms :" The women were the great power among the clans, as...chief, and send him back to the ranks of the warriors." This statement is quoted by Mr. Morgan as being a "plain indication of the mother-right and gyneocracy... | |
 | Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology - 1887 - 634 páginas
...Wright for many years a missionary among the Senecas asserts it in the following emphatic terms :" The women were the great power among the clans, as...chief, and send him back to the ranks of the warriors." This statement is quoted by Mr. Morgan as being a "plain indication of the mother-right and gyneocracy... | |
 | Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology - 1887 - 634 páginas
...Wright for many years a missionary among the Senecas asserts it in the following emphatic terms :" The women were the great power among the clans, as everywhere else. Thej' did not hesitate, when occasion required, " to knock off the horns," as it was technically called,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1899 - 798 páginas
...power among the clans, as e\ cry where else. They did not hesitate when occasion required to 'knock ofl the horns,' as it was technically called, from the head of a chief, and 10 send him l>ack to the ranks of the waniors," (Morgan's Aiiciciit Society, p. 455. This not only... | |
 | Philip Rappaport - 1906 - 242 páginas
...retreat to his own clan; or, as was often done, go and start a new matrimonial alliance in some other. The women were the great power among the clans, as...hesitate, when occasion required, "to knock off the horn," as it was technically called, from the head of a chief, and send him back to the ranks of the... | |
 | William Isaac Thomas - 1907 - 346 páginas
...clans as everywhere else. They did not hesitate, when occasion required, to "knock off the horns," so it was technically called, from the head of a chief...nomination of the chiefs, also, always rested with them.1 Traces of the maternal system are everywhere found on the American continent, and in some regions... | |
 | William Isaac Thomas - 1907 - 346 páginas
...clans as everywhere else. They did not hesitate, when occasion required, to "knock off the horns," so it was technically called, from the head of a chief and send him back 1 LH Morgan, Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines, p. 64. to the ranks of the warriors.... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1909 - 606 páginas
...retreat to his own clan; or, as was often done, go and start a new matrimonial alliance in some other. The women were the great power among the clans, as...hesitate, when occasion required, 'to knock off the horns.1 as it was technically called, from the head of a chief, and send him back to the ranks of the... | |
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They did not hesitate, when occasion required, "to knock off the horns," as it was technically called, from the head of a chief, and send him back to the ranks of the warriors... 
