| JACOB PIATT DUNN - 1919 - 694 páginas
...the Dead, gives this explanation of their custom: "Returning from this feast with a Captain (chief) who is very intelligent, and who will some day be very influential in the affairs of the country, I asked him why they called the bones of the dead atisken (ie souls—literally "in... | |
| 1920 - 196 páginas
...partly into bags, partly into fur robes, loaded them on their shoulders, and covered these packages with another beautiful hanging robe. As for the whole...Cabin, where each family made a feast to its dead." The bones of the dead were called by the Huron Atisken, "the souls." For several days between the removal... | |
| David Ives Bushnell - 1920 - 190 páginas
...partly into bags, partly into fur robes, loaded them on their shoulders, and covered these packages with another beautiful hanging robe. As for the whole...Cabin, where each family made a feast to its dead." The bones of the dead were called by the Huron A tisken. " the souls." For several days between the... | |
| David Ives Bushnell - 1920 - 242 páginas
...partly into bags, partly into fur robes, loaded them on their shoulders, and covered these packages with another beautiful hanging robe. As for the whole bodies, they put them on u species of litter, and carried them with all the others, each into his Cabin, where each family made... | |
| Robert L. Hall - 1997 - 244 páginas
...Huron Indian which he reported in his Relation of 1636: Returning from this [Huron Feast of the Dead] with a Captain who is very intelligent, and who will some day be very influential in the affairs of the Country, 1 asked him why they called the bones of the dead Atsiken. He gave me the best explanation... | |
| Claudio R. Salvucci - 2002 - 346 páginas
...who take care of the graves, draw the bodies from the tombs in the presence of the relatives. . . 287 Returning from this feast with a Captain who is very...who will some day be very influential in the affairs of the Country, I asked him why they called the bones of the dead Atisken. He gave me the best explanation... | |
| Georges E. Sioui - 1999 - 282 páginas
...partly into bags, partly into fur robes, loaded them on their shoulders, and covered these packages with another beautiful hanging robe. As for the whole...Cabin, where each family made a feast to its dead ... A day or two before setting out for the feast, they carried all these souls into one of the largest... | |
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