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movement of the man bending under his burden, may 

 indicate an escape from an inundation rather than an 

 ordinary migration. That even this may not be a 

 strained interpretation may be seen from the Chippewa 

 pictograph reduced from Schoolcraft (Fig. 40), which 

 indicates the wishes of certain tribes with reference 

 to certain territorial claims, and is also curious as an 

 illustration of the use of totems. Fig. 39 is an outline 

 of the French pictograph, which the editor of the 

 Reliquiae will excuse me for copying in consideration 

 of the explanation above given. 



In connection with the worship of manitous is the 

 veneration of sacred places, of remarkable groves and 

 trees, of strangely formed rocks, and of waterfalls, 

 each of which is supposed to have its resident spirit, 

 to whom offerings are made by the passing traveller. 

 Eocks, more especially, have impressed the minds of 

 primitive men in this way ; and hence we have vast 

 numbers of traditional sacred stones and sculptured 

 stones, carved with the totems of their resident 

 manitous, or with those of visitors desirous of pro- 

 pitiating them. Meteoric stones are known to have 

 been held sacred by some tribes of Americans, pro- 

 bably because of their having been known to fall 

 from heaven, just as similar facts are believed to 

 have given origin to some of the most celebrated 

 worships of Asiatic antiquity ; as for example, to that 

 of Diana at Ephesus. A more inexplicable supersti- 

 tion is the veneration paid to green stones, such as 

 malachite, turquoise, and jade. Stones of this hue 



