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Depositing a prayer-stick

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"Spirit" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Prayer to the Mystery
2. Medicine Crow - Apsaroke
3. Spirit of the past - Apsaroke
4. Apsaroke medicine tipi
5. Tearing Lodge - Piegan Pinokiminush is one of the few Piegan of advanced years and retentive memory. He was born about 1835 on Jusdith river in what is now northern Montana, and was found to be a valuable informant on many topics. The buffalo-skin cap is a part of his war costume, and was made and worn at the command of a spirit in a vision. The first fasting of Tearing Lodge for the sake of experiencing a vision is narrated by him in Volume VI, pages 79-81.
6. Koskimo house-post
7. Whale ceremonial - Clayoquot
8. Depositing a prayer-stick
9. Waihusiwa, a Zuni kyaqimassi Kyaqimassi ("house chief") is the title of the Shiwanni of the north, the most important of all Zuni priests. Waihusiwa in his youth spent the summer and fall of 1886 in the East with Franklin Hamilton Cushing, and was the narrator of much of the lore published in Cushing's Zuni Folk Tales. A highly spiritual man, he is one of the most steadfast of the Zuni priests upholding the traditions of the native religion.
10. Placating the spirit of a slain eagle - Assiniboin
11. Medicine-headdress - Blackfoot
12. Crying to the spirits
13. Praying to the spirits of Crater Lake - Klamath
14. Two Whistles
15. Warm tones and Wigs
16. Vanishing Race and Cañon de Chelly
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Twelve Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Loitering at the spring
2. Buffalo dance at Hano
3. Tewa girl
4. Hopi mother
5. Antelopes and snakes at Oraibi
6. Watching the dancers
7. Hopi girl
8. Evening in Hopi land
9. Honovi - Walpi snake priest, with Totokya Day painting
10. On the housetop
11. Walpi
12. Hopi woman
13. Hopi maiden
14. Counting the record
15. Chaiwa - Tewa
16. Chaiwa - Tewa, profile
17. At the trysting place
18. East side of Walpi
19. Snake priest
20. Potter mixing clay
21. Hopi man
22. Hopi architecture
23. Snake dancers entering the plaza
24. Primitive style of hairdressing
25. Walpi man
26. Mishongnovi
27. Potter
28. East mesa girls
29. Modified style of hairdressing
30. Walpi snake priest
31. Snake dancer in costume
32. Flute dancers at Tureva Spring The Flute dance is a religious ceremony concerned with bringing rain. It represents the legendary arrival of the Flute people in the Hopi country, their friendly encounter with the clans already there, and the rain-making rites subsequently performed by them for the common good. The episode here represented was photographed at Middle mesa. The individual seated near the right end is an albino, not a white man.
33. Piki maker
34. Depositing a prayer-stick
35. Tewa girls
36. Water carriers