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Invocation - Sioux

29482 Scattered throughout the Indian country are found spots that are virtually shrines. These are often boulders or other rocks which through some chance have been invested with mythic significance, and to them priest and war-leaders repair to invoke the aid of the supernatural powers. The half-buried bowlder on which the suppliant stands is accredited with the power of revealing to the warrior the foreordained result of his projected raid. Its surface bears what the Indians call the imprint of human feet, and it is owing to this peculiarity that it became a shrine. About it the soil is almost completely worn away by the generations of suppliants who have journeyed hither for divine revelation

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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Three Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Medicine-man
2. Ogalala war-party Here is depicted a group of Sioux warriors as they appeared in the days of intertribal warfare, carefully making their way down a hillside in the vicinity of the enemy's camp. Many hold in their hands, instead of weapons, mere sticks adorned with eagle-feathers or scalps - the so-called coup-sticks - desiring to win honor by striking a harmless blow therewith as well as to inflict injury with arrow and bullet.
3. Two Strike
4. Sioux chiefs
5. Oasis in the Bad Lands
6. Jack Red Cloud
7. Hollow Horn Bear
8. Sun dancer "As they dance, the performers never leave the spot on which they stand, the movement consisting in a slight upward spring from the toes and ball of the foot; legs and body are rigid. Always the right palm is extended to the yellow glaring sun, and their eyes are fixed on its lower rim. The dancer concentrates his mind, his very self, upon the one thing that he desires, whether it be the acquirement of powerful medicine or only success in the next conflict with the enemy." - Volume III, pages 95-96.
9. Slow Bull - Ogalala
10. Brule war-party
11. Gray day in the Bad Lands
12. High Hawk The subject is shown in all the finery of a warrior dressed for a gala occasion - scalp-shirt, leggings, moccasins, and pipe-bag, all embroidered with porcupine-quills; eagle-feather war bonnet, and stone-headed war-club from the handle of which dangles a scalp. High Hawk is prominent among the Brules mainly because he is now their leading historical authority, being much in demand to determine the dates of events important to his fellow tribesmen. His calendar, or "winter-count," is explained, and in part reproduced, in Volume III, pages 159-182.
13. Prairie chief
14. Little Hawk
15. Hukalowapi ceremony
16. Prayer to the Mystery
17. Fast Elk
18. Sioux camp
19. Ogalala woman
20. In the land of the Sioux
21. Ogalala girls
22. Sioux girl
23. Planning a raid
24. Morning attack
25. Heavy load - Sioux
26. Black Eagle - Assiniboin
27. Mosquito Hawk - Assiniboin
28. Red Cloud - Ogalala
29. Crazy Thunder - Ogalala
30. Wood gatherer - Sioux
31. Winter camp - Sioux
32. Assiniboin camp
33. American Horse - Ogalala
34. Invocation - Sioux Scattered throughout the Indian country are found spots that are virtually shrines. These are often boulders or other rocks which through some chance have been invested with mythic significance, and to them priest and war-leaders repair to invoke the aid of the supernatural powers. The half-buried bowlder on which the suppliant stands is accredited with the power of revealing to the warrior the foreordained result of his projected raid. Its surface bears what the Indians call the imprint of human feet, and it is owing to this peculiarity that it became a shrine. About it the soil is almost completely worn away by the generations of suppliants who have journeyed hither for divine revelation
35. Mountain-sheep hunter - Sioux
36. In the Bad Lands