The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Hennepin (1626 - 1704)
Belgian priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order and an explorer of the interior of North America. He published accounts of his observations on his travels. In is Description de la Louisiane he describe the Calumet and its use (pp. 80-81) Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?id_nbr=841 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Hennepin Linked print sources: as Agent - source of information - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement découverte au sud-ouest de la Nouvelle France, avec la carte du pays, par le R. P. Louis Hennepin.
References in Documents:
Calumet; it is the most mysterious Thing in the
World among the Savages of the America,
being used in all their important
Transactions; yet is it nothing else
but a large Tobacco-Pipe
made of red, black, or white Marble. All
their Declarations of War and Conclusions of
Peace are sealed, as it
were, with the Calumet; which they fill
with the best Tobacco, and
present it to those with whom they treat about any great
Affair, and
smoke out of the same after them, as we are told by Monsieur
pinp 71, 72.)
is white, and hath embossed upon it three Heads of their Kings, or
rather
Deities.