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Title: Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Cory, Charles B. (Charles Barney), 1857-1921
Subjects: Hunting Birds Seminole Indians Fishing
Publisher: Boston : Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ng me, as they told me many things about their manners andcustoms, and often evinced their good feelings toward me by makingme presents of sweet potatoes, eggs, and venison. Osceolas wife was once bitten by a moccasin, and I am told that thewound did not heal for nearly a year, and at times she was troubledwith fever, which may or may not have been the result of the bite. At many of the camps the Indians now keep hens and pigs. In THE SEMINOLE INDIANS. 15 moving from one camp to another they take the pigs about withthem. One or two of the Indians have an old wagon and some verydiminutive horses. Osceola has two perfectly white horses, strong,hardy little animals, which draw about an old wagon when he movesfrom place to place. Usually, the squaws and pappooses ride in thewagon, while the men walk, and the pigs are tied underneath or elseled by a squaw. It was at one time customary for hunting parties to wander somedistance to the north and to the south of their present settlements, and
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MUVINU CAMP. the remains of old Indian camps may be found to the extreme south-east point of Florida: but none were observed on the southwest por-tion of the State below White Water Bay. The costume of an Indian in camp usually consists of a cotton l6 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. shirt. The women wear a cotton dress embroidered with manypieces of colored caHco. The young children run about naked untilthev arrive at the age of eight or ten years, when they are given acotton shirt. Sometimes the small children wear some sort ofcovering during the cold weather. The Indians visit each other a great deal. Many of those livingon New River go to the Big Cypress every year, usually to attendthe Green Corn Dance and visit their relatives. GREEN CORN DANCE. The annual festival known as the Green Corn Dance is still ob-served by the Indians, but it is not conducted with the same cere-mony as in bygone years. In the old days the Green Corn Dance or • Busk was an occa-sion of great importance

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