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Iroquois: smoke dance Diverse natural materials used by North American Indians. (Left) Iroquois buckskin shoulder bag decorated with porcupine quills and deer hair, c. 1750. In the Linden-Museum fur Volkerkunde, Stuttgart, Germany. Length of pouch 24 cm. Eastern Woodlands Indians Haudenosaunee Confederacy
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Iroquois: smoke dance
Diverse natural materials used by North American Indians. (Left) Iroquois buckskin shoulder bag decorated with porcupine quills and deer hair, c. 1750. In the Linden-Museum fur Volkerkunde, Stuttgart, Germany. Length of pouch 24 cm.
Eastern Woodlands Indians
Haudenosaunee Confederacy
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Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis Henry Morgan
American anthropologist
Horatio Hale
American anthropologist
Erminnie Adele Platt Smith
American anthropologist

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Tecumseh. Battle of the Thames, Ontario, Canada, and the death of Tecumseh. Col. Richard M. Johnson with the Kentucky volunteers on left battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Native American Shawnee chief. North American indian. (See Notes)
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