Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Peabody Museum. One of these, comprising pre-historic implements used in the preparation of food from corn, includes mortars, pestles, elm-bark dishes, corn-husk baskets, and ladles and spoons of wood. The other is a collection of the sacred paraphernalia, of a band of the Seneca tribe, which was worn in their sacred dances and ceremonies. It includes wooden and corn-husk masks, rattles of turtle shell and bark, and sacred tobacco...
...Clarke. The expedition will leave Boston on June 27, going by way of New-foundland to the northeast coast of Labrador. The party will return some-time in September. It is proposed to investigate an unexplored region in Labrador, with the endeavor to locate an isolated tribe of Indians inhabiting the interior of the peninsula. It is also hoped that the expedition will come in contact with the great herd of caribou, numbering many thousands, on its annual northward migration...
...Thomas Jays of St. Thomas's Hospital, London, delivered a short address before the St. Paul's Society in Phillips Brooks House, last night on his work among the natives of West Africa. The tribe among which he has been working is composed of fifteen million savages who have made practically no advance in civilization. Only six missionaries are now trying to teach the tribe and there is a great opportunity for further mission work among them...
...Parker, substitute halfback, is 23 years old, 5 feet 8 inches in height and weighs 162 pounds. He is a member of the Seneca tribe...
Eugene Fisher, substitute end, is 22 years old and belongs to the Cheyenne tribe. He weighs 140 pounds and is 5 feet 6 inches in height...