cavity quotes

I, Dekanahwideh, and the Confederated Chiefs, now uproot the tallest pine tree, and into the cavity thereby made we cast all weapons of war† Thus shall the Great Peace be established.

-Dekanahwideh   fl.c.1450
Traditional words from the Six Nations Confederacy (present- day Ontario and the Northeastern United States), one of the world's oldest constitutions, quoted in Paul  A  W  Wallace The White Roots of Peace (1946).