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Common terms and phrases
animals arrows bird blanket body boys brother buffalo Bureau of Ethnology ceremonial child Chimo color corn cougar coyote cult societies Dakota dance deer dipped eagle plumes east ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT Eskimo father feast feet fetiches fire Fort Chimo four gens ghost gourd hä'chamoni hand head Heyoka Hidatsa ho'naaite Hudson strait inches Indians Innuit killed Koksoak Koksoak river line of meal lodge Ma'asewe Mandan medicine bowl medicine water mother mysterious Nenenot night Ojibwa Omaha painted pass person pipe placed Po'shaiyänne pole Ponka prayer pueblo rattle reindeer replied returned river sacred sealskin shaman side Siouan skin Snake Society snow songs spirit stick stone sun dance Sûs'sistinnako tent theurgist thongs threw Thunder-being ti'ämoni tree tribes Tusayan Ungava bay Ût'sět vicar village wakan Wakanda Wakinyan water the earth Whale river wolf wolverene woman women ya'ya Zuñi
Popular passages
Page 465 - ... and are always on the watch to kill those who should have the hardihood to approach their residence. The tradition is that many have suffered from these little evil spirits, and among others three Maha Indians fell a sacrifice to them a few years since. This has inspired all the neighbouring nations, Sioux, Mahas, and Ottoes, with such terror that no consideration could tempt them to visit the hill.
Page 407 - You came hither from the you go to the alwayn walk thou ! animals. And you are going back thither. Do not face this way again. When you go, continue walking.
Page xxvi - I, figs. 1-285. A study of the textile art in its relation to the development of form and ornament, by William H. Holmes. pp. 189-252, figs. 286-358. Aids to the study of the Maya codices, by Prof. Cyrus Thomas.
Page 494 - Those who were left on earth made a village below where we saw the nine villages; and when the Mandans die they expect to return to the original seats of their forefathers; the good reaching the ancient village by means of the lake, which the burden of the sins of the wicked will not enable them to cross.
Page 494 - Their belief in a future state is connected with this tradition of their origin: the whole nation resided in one large village under ground near a subterraneous lake: a grape-vine extended its roots down to their habitation and gave them a view of the light: some of the most adventurous climbed up the vine and were delighted with the sight of the earth, which they found covered with buffalo and rich with every kind of fruits...
Page 364 - Indian women use. When the youth tried to grasp the bow and arrows the Moon Being crossed his hands very quickly, and if the youth was not very careful he seized the pack strap instead of the bow and arrows, thereby fixing his lot in after life. In such a case he could not help acting the woman, speaking, dressing, and working just as Indian women used to do.
Page 421 - ... stops in one place to make its nest, and in another to rest in its flight. A man when he goes forth stops when he wills. So the god has stopped. The sun, which is so bright and beautiful, is one place where he has stopped. The moon, the stars, the winds, he has bfeu with.
Page 120 - ... war hero, warriors of the six mountains of the world, intercede with the Cloud People for us that they may water the earth. Medicine bowl, cloud bowl, and water vase give us your hearts, that the earth may be watered. I make the ancient road of meal that my song may pass straight over it — the ancient road.
Page 429 - Wakinyan songs are sung by members of the Heyoka dancing order. Smet was told that the Dakota — Pretend that the thunder is an enormous bird, and that the muffled sound of the distant thunder is caused by a countless number of young (thunder) birds. The great bird, they say, gives the first sound, and the young ones repeat it; this is the cause of the reverberations. The Sioux declare that the young thunderers do all the mischief, like giddy youth who will not listen to good advice; but the old...
Page 501 - The right hand road leads to a charming warm country, where the spring is everlasting, and every month is May; and as the year is always in its youth, so are the people, and particularly the women are bright as stars, and never scold.