Excerpt from The Indian Tribes of North America, Vol. 2: With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs When the slaughter ceases, the hunters retrace their steps to gather the spoil, and the women rush to the field to cut up and carry away the game. Each hunter now claims his own, and the mode of ascertaining their respective shares is simple. The arrows of each hunter bear a dis tinctive mark, and each carries an equal number. The carcass, therefore, belongs to him by whose arrow it is found to be ...
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Excerpt from The Indian Tribes of North America, Vol. 2: With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs When the slaughter ceases, the hunters retrace their steps to gather the spoil, and the women rush to the field to cut up and carry away the game. Each hunter now claims his own, and the mode of ascertaining their respective shares is simple. The arrows of each hunter bear a dis tinctive mark, and each carries an equal number. The carcass, therefore, belongs to him by whose arrow it is found to be transfixed and these being carefully withdrawn, every hunter is obliged to produce his original number, or to account for the loss of such as are missing, in default of which he suffers the discredit of having missed the object, or permitted a wounded buffalo to escape with a weapon in his esh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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