the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

was made. The / persons appointed to express the decision of the / tribeserklärt vielleicht d. functions u. appointment der 6 electors in d. A%tecconfederacy. W ar any sachem obdurate u. unreasonable, influences broughtto bear upon him, which he could not well resist. Seltner Fall auch.Beim Beginn der Amerik. Revolution konnten d. Iroquois, wegen want ofunanimity im confederate council, nicht übereinstimmen über Kriegserklärggegen d. neue American confederacy. Theil der Oneida Sachemsrefused. A s neutrality was impossible with the Mohawks u. d. Senecas weredetermined to fight, it was resolved that each tribe might engage in the warupon its own responsibility or remain neutral. The war agst the Eriesythe Neutral Nation and Susquehan(n)ocks, u. d. several wars gegen French,were resolved upon in General Council. “ Our colonial records largelyfilled mit négociations mit d. Iroquois Confederacy.”The induction of new Sachems into office great interest to the people u. tothe Sachems selbst. Für d. ceremony of raising sachems the generalcouncil primarily instituted ; in this capacity called Mourning Council, weilhad to lament the deceased u. to install his successor. Bei death of aSachem, der tribe der ihn had lost had power to summon a GeneralCouncil, name time u. place for meeting ; a herald sent out with a belt ofwampum, meist the official belt of the deceased sachem which conveyed themessage : “ the name (der des defunct’s) calls for a council” , announced alsothe day u. place o f convention. Mourning Council mit d. festivities thatfollowed Hptattraction für d. Iroquois, flocking to attendance from themost distant localities with zeal u. enthusiasm. Bei der lamentation(womit proceedings opened), a procession formed, and the lament was chantedin verse, with responses, by the united tribes, as they marched vom place ofreception to the place o f council. Dies ist day's proceeding; 2nd day:installation ceremony, lasts meist bis 4th day.U. a., for d. instruction d. newly raised sachem, the ancient wampum belts, intowhich, nach their expression, the structure and principles of the confederacy“ had been talked” , were produced u. read i.e. interpreted. A wiseman,not necessarily one o f the Sachems, took these belts one after the otheru. walking to and fro between the 2 divisions o f sachems, read from them51 the facts which they recorded. | Nach der Indian conception, these belts cantell, by means o f an interpreter, the exact rule, provision or transaction talkedinto them at the time, and of which they were the exclusive record. A strand[Germ, strahn, one of the twists of which a rope is composed, Strähn = hank,skein1Zb (Gebind] o f wampum bestehend aus strings von purple u. white shellbeads, or a belt woven with figures formed by beads of different colour, operatedon the principle of associating a particular fact with a particular string;thus giving a serial arrangement to the facts as well as fidelity to thememory. These strands u. belts o f wampum were the only visible records derIroquois; aber they required trained interpreters who could draw from theirstrings and figures the records locked up in their remembrance. One of171