 | American Philosophical Society. Historical & Literary Committee - 1819 - 534 Seiten
...then thrust into the coffin through the hole cut out at the head of it. This hole, the Indians say, is for the spirit of the deceased to go in and out...until it has found the place of its future residence. .Every thing being in order, the bearers of the corpse were desired to take their places. Mr. Calhoon... | |
 | John Smith - 1819 - 278 Seiten
...with their heads painted with oyle and Pocones, finely trimmed with feathers, and shall haue beads, hatchets, copper, and Tobacco, doing nothing but dance and sing, with all their Predecessors. But the common people they suppose shall not liue after death, but rot in their graues like dead dogs.... | |
 | Samuel Farmar Jarvis - 1820 - 124 Seiten
...with their heads painted with oile and pocones, finely trimmed with feathers, and shall have beades, hatchets, copper, and tobacco, doing nothing but dance and sing, with all their predecessors," kc. Capt. Smith's Description of Virginia, apud Purchas, vol. iv. p. 1702. NOTE P. See Heckcwelder's... | |
 | 1829 - 150 Seiten
...In funerals, (c. 37.) — a hole is left in the lid of the coffin. — This hole, the Indians say, is for the spirit of the deceased to go in and out,...until it has found the place of its future residence. — The doctors or jugglers — (c. 31.) — pretend to counteract or destroy the enchantments of wizzards... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1833 - 250 Seiten
...thrust into the coffin through the 11—16 hole cut out at the head of it. This hole, the Indians say, is for the spirit of the deceased to go in and out...until it has found the place of its future residence. Every thing being in order, the two white men were requested to act as the foremost hearers, while... | |
 | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder - 1876 - 482 Seiten
...then thrust into the ccffin through the hole cut out at the head of it. This hole, the Indians say, is for the spirit of the deceased to go in- and out...until it has found the place of its future residence. Everything being in order, the bearers of the corpse were desired to take their places. Mr. Calhoon... | |
 | 1881 - 462 Seiten
...then thrust into the coffin through the hole cut out at the head of it. This hole, the Indians say, is for the spirit of the deceased to go in and out...until it has found the place of its future residence. Everything being in order, the bearers of the corpse were desired to take their places. Mr. Calhoon... | |
 | John Smith - 1884 - 1150 Seiten
...with their heads painted with oile and Pocones, finely trimmed with feathers ; and shal haue beacles, hatchets, copper, and tobacco, doing nothing but dance and sing with all their Predecessors. But the common people, they suppose [34] shall not [1607-9] Hue after death. To diuert them from this... | |
 | Edwin MacMinn - 1900 - 602 Seiten
...then thrust into the coffin through the hole cut out of the head of it ; this hole the Indians say is for the spirit of the deceased to go in and out...until it has found the place of its future residence. "Everything being ready, the bearers of the corpse took their places. Several women from a house about... | |
 | Samuel Purchas - 1906 - 592 Seiten
...with their heads painted with Oile and Pocones, finely trimmed with Feathers, and shall have Beades, Hatchets, Copper, and Tobacco, doing nothing but dance and sing, with all their Predecessors. But the common people they ^ suppose shall not live after death. To divert them from this blind Idolatry,... | |
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Quiyoughcosughes, when they are dead, goe beyond the mountaines towards the setting of the sunne, and ever remaine there in forme of their Oke, with their heads painted with oile and pocones, finely trimmed with feathers, and shall have beades, hatchets,... 
