Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880
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59 INDIAN ART. — CURIOUS MARRIAGE.
The Narragansetts not only coined money (wam- pmnpeag), but manufactured pendants and bracelets, — using shells, we presume, for these purposes. They also made tobacco-pipes, some blue and some white, out of stone, and furnished earthen vessels and pots for cooker}^ and other domestic uses, — so that they had several approximations, in these respects, to civilization and art, not so distinctly manifested by other tribes. They had, in fact, commercial relations... with other people and distant nations, and, it seems, were sometimes sneered at on account of their disin- clination for war, — preferring other service.
There is evidence, also, that they considered them- selves — in some respects, at least — superior to other Indians ; and this is illustrated by a very curious piece of history, said to be " the only tradition of any sort from the ancestors of our first Indians." It seems that the oldest Indians among the Narragan- setts reported to the English, on their first arrival, "that they had in former times a sachem called Tash- tassuck, who was incompai^ably greater than any in the whole land in power and state." This great sachem — who, it would seem, had the power to elevate, and, in some respects, enlighten his race — had only two children, a son and daughter ; and, not being able to match them according to their dignity, he joined them together in matrimony, and they had four sons, of whom Canonicus, who was chief sachem when the English arrived, was the eldest.
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59 INDIAN ART. — CURIOUS MARRIAGE.
The Narragansetts not only coined money (wam- pmnpeag), but manufactured pendants and bracelets, — using shells, we presume, for these purposes. They also made tobacco-pipes, some blue and some white, out of stone, and furnished earthen vessels and pots for cooker}^ and other domestic uses, — so that they had several approximations, in these respects, to civilization and art, not so distinctly manifested by other tribes. They had, in fact, commercial relations... with other people and distant nations, and, it seems, were sometimes sneered at on account of their disin- clination for war, — preferring other service.
There is evidence, also, that they considered them- selves — in some respects, at least — superior to other Indians ; and this is illustrated by a very curious piece of history, said to be " the only tradition of any sort from the ancestors of our first Indians." It seems that the oldest Indians among the Narragan- setts reported to the English, on their first arrival, "that they had in former times a sachem called Tash- tassuck, who was incompai^ably greater than any in the whole land in power and state." This great sachem — who, it would seem, had the power to elevate, and, in some respects, enlighten his race — had only two children, a son and daughter ; and, not being able to match them according to their dignity, he joined them together in matrimony, and they had four sons, of whom Canonicus, who was chief sachem when the English arrived, was the eldest.
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