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Page 125
... tribes ate salt regularly , used it as an article of trade and made expeditions to distant points to procure a supply , while other tribes had no definite source of salt and cared nothing about it . Whether these latter aborigines ...
... tribes ate salt regularly , used it as an article of trade and made expeditions to distant points to procure a supply , while other tribes had no definite source of salt and cared nothing about it . Whether these latter aborigines ...
Page 264
... tribes were given to the practice . The Catawbas , Choctaws , Natchez , Tonikas and several other Southeastern tribes , as well as the Karankawa on the coast of Texas , prac- ticed head - flattening to a limited extent , while the ...
... tribes were given to the practice . The Catawbas , Choctaws , Natchez , Tonikas and several other Southeastern tribes , as well as the Karankawa on the coast of Texas , prac- ticed head - flattening to a limited extent , while the ...
Page 317
... tribes or the immense shell heaps left by the tribes living along the seacoast or the large rivers . Whether the mounds were built primarily for burial , ceremonial , defense , dwelling or observation purposes , or for a combination of ...
... tribes or the immense shell heaps left by the tribes living along the seacoast or the large rivers . Whether the mounds were built primarily for burial , ceremonial , defense , dwelling or observation purposes , or for a combination of ...
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