Report of Progress - Geological Survey of CanadaGeological Survey of Canada, 1880 - Geology Contents of each report may be found in "List of publications of the Geological survey of Canada. 1906." |
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Page 11 - 2. Isolated outcrops on Coal Creek and on Canaan River and North Fork, presumably of this age, but lacking evidence of fossils. " 3. Small areas about St. John and Carlton, with possibly Partridge Island.
Page 167 - Of all the Indians we had seen, this chief had the most savage aspect, and his whole appearance sufficiently marked him as a proper person to lead a tribe of cannibals. His stature was above the common size; his body spare and thin, and though at first sight he appeared lank and emaciated, yet his step was bold and firm, and his limbs apparently strong and muscular; his eyes were large and goggling, and seemed ready to start out of their sockets; his forehead deeply wrinkled, not...
Page 149 - Indian stories — possessed the attributes of a human being to a great extent. His coat of feathers, for instance, could be put on or taken off at will, like a garment. It is even related in one version of the story that he was born of a woman who had no husband, and that she made bows and arrows for him. When old enough, with these he killed birds, and of their skins she sewed a cape or blanket. The birds were the little snow-bird with black head and neck, the large black and red, and the Mexican...
Page 150 - The chief had a daughter, and to her Ne-kil-stlas covertly made love, and became her accepted lover, and visited her by night many times unknown to her father. The girl began to love Ne-kilstlas very much, and trust in him, which was what he desired; and at length when he thought the time ripe, he said that he was very thirsty and wanted a drink of water. This the girl brought him in one of the closely woven baskets in common use. He drank only a little, however, and setting the basket down beside...
Page 122 - The office of ska-ga, shaman or medicine-man is not, like the chieftaincy, hereditary, but is either chosen or accepted in consequence of some tendency to dream or see visions, or owing to some omen. The would-be doctor must go through a severe course of initiation. He must abstain from connexion with women, and eat very little ordinary food, and that only once a day, in the evening. He goes into the woods and eats 'medicine,' of which the Moneses uniflora was pointed out to me as one of the chief...
Page 133 - Occasionally some distant male relative may be adopted as a new son by the mother, and bo mado heir to the property. The wife may in some cases get a small share. As soon as the body has been enclosed in the coffin-box, and not before, the brother or other heir takes possession. When it can be amicably arranged, he also inherits the wife of the dead man, but should he be already married...
Page 119 - The chieftaincy is hereditary, and on the death of a chief devolves Suceession to upon his next eldest brother, or should he have no brother, on his" nephew, or lacking both of these his sister or niece may in rare cases inherit the chieftaincy, though when this occurs it is probably only nominal. It is possible — as occasionally happens in the matter of succession to property — that a distant male relative may, in want of near kinsmen, be adopted by the mother of the deceased as a new son, and...
Page 30 - MaMe?. route be called rivers. The most considerable is that which has been called the Slate Chuck on the chart. It reaches the inlet about a mile north of Anchor Cove, coming from a wide and low valley which runs northwestward into the mountain range, and is nearly parallel to that occupied by Long Arm. Slate Chuck Brook is so called from the fact, mentioned by Mr. Richardson,* that from a quarry a few miles up it.s course the Indians obtain the dark shaly material from which they make carvings....
Page 149 - By and bye in the shell he heard a very faint cry, like that of a newly born child, which gradually became louder, and at last a little female child was seen, which growing by degrees larger and larger, was finally married by the raven, and from this union all the Indians were produced, and the country...
Page 132 - ... tobacco to smoke. The house is thus generally full of sympathising Indians, with smoke, and the noise of the medicine-man's performances. Should the sick man die, the body is generally enclosed in a sitting posture in a nearly square cedar box. which is made for the purpose by all the Indians conjointly; or, if they do not wish to make it, they subscribe to purchase from some one of their number a suitable box. The coffin-box being the same in shape as those used for ordinary domestic purposes,...