Social History of the Races of Mankind ...Trübner & Company, 1889 |
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Aleuts Algonquins animals Aoneans bark beads black drink body boiled bone buffalo called canoes ceremony chief Chippeways coloured Commanches common cooked council covered Dacotas dance dead death deceased deer dressed dried dwelling earth enemy exercise expedition father favour favourite feast feet festival fire fish flesh frequently friends ghostly girl grammatical gender Greenland hair hand head honour hunter hunting husband Indians Karalits killed kind labour land language Lenapés lodge maize Mandans manetoos Maranonians marriage marry mats meat Mengwes Mobilians moccasins moon mother Narragansets nature Navajos neighbouring never nouns ornamented painted parties Pawnees performed person pipe poles Polygamy possessed Powhattans powvows race reindeer relations render river round sachems season served Shawanese Shoshones side skin smoke sometimes stone strangers tion tree tribes verb village wampum warriors wife wigwams wild winter wives woman women wood wooden words young
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