Potherie

Potherie of the game played before Perrot by the Miamis, helps us to remove the confusion of the account.

Indian Games : an historical research Andrew McFarland Davis

La Potherie [Footnote: La Potherie, Vol. III, p. 23.] says that the women sometimes play at platter, but ordinarily they cast the fruit stones with the hand as one throws dice.

Indian Games : an historical research Andrew McFarland Davis

Charlevoix derives its origin from the Algonquin language, while La Potherie asserts it to have originated from an exclamation of the first discoverers under Cartier, who, on first seeing the promontory on which Quebec City now rests, raised an exclamation of "Quel bec."

Our Northern Heritage 1906

De la Potherie illustrates their use as beds, [21] one end of the mat being rolled up for a pillow as shown in figure 3.

Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 William Henry Holmes 1889

De la Potherie, who wrote at an earlier date than Kalm, says --

Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 William Henry Holmes 1889

Speaking of the ceremony of smoking the calumet among the Iroquois, De la Potherie says:

Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 William Henry Holmes 1889

M. de la Potherie [42] -- gives an account of surface burial as practiced by the Iroquois of New York:

A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884

Potherie, to Charles de Boues, Grand Vicar of Pontoise, founder of the first mission of the Récollets in New France.

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

Potherie places it at 180 men, and Frontenac at 200 men.

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Francis Parkman 1858

Potherie, his only authority, proves them to have been heathen, as their chief mourner was a noted

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Francis Parkman 1858