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Traditions of De-coo-dah, and antiquarian researches: comprising extensive explorations, surveys, and excavations of the wonderful and mysterious earthen remains of the mound-builders in America ... Embellished with 70 engravings, descriptive of 120 varying relative arrangements ...

Title
  1. Traditions of De-coo-dah, and antiquarian researches: comprising extensive explorations, surveys, and excavations of the wonderful and mysterious earthen remains of the mound-builders in America ... Embellished with 70 engravings, descriptive of 120 varying relative arrangements ...
Published by
  1. New York, H. Thayer, 1858 [c1852].
Author
  1. Pidgeon, William.

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Description
  1. 334 p. illus. (incl. fold. front., ports.); 23 cm.
Subject
  1. De-coo-dah, Elk Indian, -1841?
  2. Indians of North America > Antiquities
  3. Calumets
  4. Mounds > United States
Call number
  1. Arents S 1185
Note
  1. Sabin 62698/
  2. The author's formal introduction to De-coo-dah with "the big pipe of friendship": p. 8-9. Ceremonies with "the great festival pipe": p. 157-159. "Modern and ancient Indian pipes": p. 298-[305] (incl. 8 figs.)
Author
  1. Pidgeon, William.
Title
  1. Traditions of De-coo-dah, and antiquarian researches: comprising extensive explorations, surveys, and excavations of the wonderful and mysterious earthen remains of the mound-builders in America ... Embellished with 70 engravings, descriptive of 120 varying relative arrangements ...
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  1. New York, H. Thayer, 1858 [c1852].
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  1. Arents S 1185
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