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Medicine-headdress - Blackfoot
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By long usage the term "medicine" in the sense of supernatural has become firmly fixed in the literature of American Indians, and especially the plains tribes. A head-dress of the sort here depicted consists of some part of the body, sometimes the entire skin, of the creature that appeared as a spirit in a dream of the wearer and instructed him how to have its help, especially in war.
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Blackfoot
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Blackfoot country
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Since the beginning of the historical period the Blackfeet have ranged the prairies along Bow river, while their allies, the Bloods and Piegan, were respectively on Belly and Old Man rivers. In the earliest times of which their traditionists have knowledge the three tribes were respectively on Saskatchewan, Red Deer, and Bow rivers.
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A Blackfoot travois
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The travois is still used for transporting bundles of ceremonial objects. Before, and sometimes even long after, the acquisition of horses, travoix were drawn by dogs.
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Medicine-headdress - Blackfoot
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By long usage the term "medicine" in the sense of supernatural has become firmly fixed in the literature of American Indians, and especially the plains tribes. A head-dress of the sort here depicted consists of some part of the body, sometimes the entire skin, of the creature that appeared as a spirit in a dream of the wearer and instructed him how to have its help, especially in war.
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Oksoyapiw - Blackfoot
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Bear Bull - Blackfoot
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The plate illustrates an ancient Blackfoot method of arranging the hair.
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Calf Child - Blackfoot
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Blackfoot tipis
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Fleshing a hide - Blackfoot
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The implement for removing flesh and fat from hides is a long-bone with a beveled scraping edge. The thong attached to the upper end and passing about the woman's wrist is for the purpose of giving additional leverage.
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Bow River - Blackfoot
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Cheyenne chief
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The Cheyenne belong to the Algonquian linguistic family and therefore are related to the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy and to the Arapaho of the north, and, much more remotely, to many of the tribes that once lives along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Midwest. They are now divided into the Northern Cheyenne, living in Montana, and the Southern Cheyenne who were assigned a reservation in the present Oklahoma in 1867.
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A Blackfoot
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A travois - Blackfoot
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A typical Blackfoot
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A Blackfoot soldier
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Blackfoot finery
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A Blackfoot woman
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Blackfoot cookery
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Modern Blackfoot burial
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Bow River and the sandhills - Blackfoot
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In a Blackfoot camp
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A medicine-bag - Blackfoot
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Transporting the ceremonial bag and tipi-cover of a Blackfoot society
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A beaver-bundle - Blackfoot
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A Blackfoot ceremonial bag
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Fat horse, with insignia of a Blackfoot soldier
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Blackfoot war-bonnet
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A Blackfoot tipi
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"Spirit"
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Prayer to the Mystery
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In supplication the pipe was always offered to the Mystery by holding it aloft. At the feet of the worshipper lies a buffalo-skull, symbolic of the spirit of the animal upon which the Indians were so dependent. The subject of the picture is Picket Pin, an Ogalala Sioux.
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Medicine Crow - Apsaroke
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The hawk fastened on the head is illustrative of the manner of wearing the symbol of one's tutelary spirit. A biographical sketch of this subject is given in Volume IV, page 203.
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Spirit of the past - Apsaroke
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A particularly striking group of old-time warriors, conveying so much of the feeling of the early days of the chase and the war-path that the picture seems to reflect in an unusual degree "the spirit of the past."
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Apsaroke medicine tipi
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The Apsaroke medicine-men usually painted their lodges according to the visions received while fasting and supplicating their spirits. This tipi was painted dark red, with various symbols on the covering. No man would dare so to decorate a tipi without having received his instructions in revelation from the spirits.
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Tearing Lodge - Piegan
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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.
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Koskimo house-post
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The huge, grotesquely carved interior supporting columns are the most striking feature of Kwakiutl houses. The figures perpetuate the memory of incidents in the legendary history of the family, frequently representing a tutelary spirit of the founder.
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Whale ceremonial - Clayoquot
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Before daring to practise his dangerous art, the whaler subjects himself to a long and rigorous course of ceremonial purification in order to render himself pleasing to the spirit whale. He bathes frequently, rubs his body vigorously with hemlock sprigs, dives, and imitates the movements of a whale.
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Depositing a prayer-stick
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Round, painted sticks with feathers attached by cotton cords are deposited in various places, particularly in springs and at shrines, in supplication to the spirits associated with the locality.
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Waihusiwa, a Zuni kyaqimassi
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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.
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Placating the spirit of a slain eagle - Assiniboin
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For their feathers, which were used in many ways as ornaments and as fetishes, eagles were caught by a hunter concealed in a brush-covered pit. A rather elaborate ceremony took place over the bodies of the slain birds for the purpose of placating the eagle spirits. The Sarsi custom is described at some length in Volume XVIII, pages 95-99.
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Medicine-headdress - Blackfoot
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By long usage the term "medicine" in the sense of supernatural has become firmly fixed in the literature of American Indians, and especially the plains tribes. A head-dress of the sort here depicted consists of some part of the body, sometimes the entire skin, of the creature that appeared as a spirit in a dream of the wearer and instructed him how to have its help, especially in war.
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Crying to the spirits
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Praying to the spirits of Crater Lake - Klamath
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Two Whistles
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part of Visualizing the "Vanishing Race"
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Warm tones and Wigs
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part of Visualizing the "Vanishing Race"
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Vanishing Race and Cañon de Chelly
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Page 3 of Visualizing the "Vanishing Race"
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Eighteen
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A Chipewyan tipi among the aspens
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The Chipewyan are one of several Athapascan groups occupying the territory between the Hudson bay and the Rocky mountains, from about the fifty-seventh parallel to the Arctic circle. Much of this area is barren, but the streams that feed and drain the innumerable lakes are bordered by thick groves of the slender, white boles of aspens, whose pleasant glades are favored by camps of fishermen and berrypickers. The Chipewyan dwelling, formerly made of the skins of caribou, on which animal these people principally depended for food, clothing, and shelter, was one of the few points in which their culture resembled that of the plains Indians. Their distinctive garment was a leather or fur coat with skirts cut to a point before and behind, a feature to which the appellation Wichipwayaniwuk ("they pointed fur people"), the Cree original of Chipewyan, alluded.
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Tsaaassi-mis-salla
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The name, colloquially rendered as Crow Collar, refers to a neck-ornament of crow-feathers.
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Titishu-kghitluhl ("Deer Running") - Sarsi
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The Sarsi are an Athapascan tribe which prior to the nineteenth century came out of the far north, crossed the Saskatchewan, and becoming affiliated with the Algonquian confederacy of the Bloods, Blackfeet, and Piegan, became typical plainsmen, following the buffalo, engaging in horse-stealing raids, and in general adopting the religious practices of their allies. Old Sarsi, as the subject of this plate is colloquially known, was ninety-eight years of age when the photograph was made in 1925. In spite of his years, he was still agile and keen.
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Muwu
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The childhood nickname, His Tooth, completely supplanted the formally bestowed Star Child.
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A Sarsi camp
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The scene is a riverside grove near Okotoks, Alberta, where a band of Sarsi were awaiting clement weather to begin the prosaic labor of shocking wheat for one of their Caucasian neighbors.
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A Cree canoe on Lac Les Isles
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The Western Woods Cree, Bush Cree, Swampy Cree, or Maskegon, as they are variously known, are scattered in numerous bands through the wooded country north of the prairies between Hudson bay and the Peace river drainage. Other members of this large family inhabit the plains in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and the country from Lake Winnipeg to Lakes Mistassini and Nitchequon in the Province of Quebec. They are members of the great Algonquian stock, and are closely related to the Chippewa. Lac les Isles, locally known as Big Island lake, is in west-central Saskatchewan, near the Alberta border. The canoe is a well-made craft of birch-bark.
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A Cree girl
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The garment here illustrated is a robe of twined strips of rabbit-fur.
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Moose hunter - Cree
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Cree hunters are masters of their art of imitating, by means of a birch-bark trumpet, the call of a moose of either sex, and thus luring within gunshot an animal seeking a mate during the rutting season.
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Cree tipis
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Moss for the baby-bags - Cree
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In moist localities of the northern bush country the ground is thickly carpeted with Sphagnum. The moss is dried on racks, and is used as an absorbent in the tightly laced bags of infants.
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A Cree
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Of variously widely differing types noted among the Cree at Lac les Iles, the subject of this plate and that of the following one were perhaps best representative of Cree physiognomy.
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A Cree woman
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A Cree camp at Lac les Isles
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A family group consisting of two middle-aged women, a young mother, and several children, camped at the lake while the rest of the band were haying in a swampy meadow some miles inland. They engaged in fishing with a gill-net and in gathering blueberries. In point of sanitation their tipi and their cooking methods left much to be desired.
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Chief Hector - Assiniboin
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The Assiniboin are an offshoot of the Yanktonai Sioux, from whom they separated prior to 1640. The southern branch has long been confined on a reservation in Montana, the northern is resident in Alberta. The latter is divided into two bands, which formerly ranged respectively north and south of Bow river, from the Rocky mountains out upon the prairies. Hector is chief of the southern band of the Canadian branch known locally as Bear's Paw band.
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Assiniboin hunter
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Kindling fire - Assiniboin
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The fire-drill is unknown to the oldest Assiniboin traditionists, but striking fire from flint was apparently as aboriginal method.
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Assiniboin mother and child
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Painted tipi - Assiniboin
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A tipi painted with figurines commemorative of a dream experienced by its owner is a venerated object. Its occupants enjoy good fortune, and there is no difficulty in finding a purchaser when after a few years the owner, according to custom, decides to dispose of it.
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Placating the spirit of a slain eagle - Assiniboin
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For their feathers, which were used in many ways as ornaments and as fetishes, eagles were caught by a hunter concealed in a brush-covered pit. A rather elaborate ceremony took place over the bodies of the slain birds for the purpose of placating the eagle spirits. The Sarsi custom is described at some length in Volume XVIII, pages 95-99.
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Agichide - Assiniboin
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Blackfoot country
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Since the beginning of the historical period the Blackfeet have ranged the prairies along Bow river, while their allies, the Bloods and Piegan, were respectively on Belly and Old Man rivers. In the earliest times of which their traditionists have knowledge the three tribes were respectively on Saskatchewan, Red Deer, and Bow rivers.
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A Blackfoot travois
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The travois is still used for transporting bundles of ceremonial objects. Before, and sometimes even long after, the acquisition of horses, travoix were drawn by dogs.
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Medicine-headdress - Blackfoot
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By long usage the term "medicine" in the sense of supernatural has become firmly fixed in the literature of American Indians, and especially the plains tribes. A head-dress of the sort here depicted consists of some part of the body, sometimes the entire skin, of the creature that appeared as a spirit in a dream of the wearer and instructed him how to have its help, especially in war.
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Oksoyapiw - Blackfoot
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Bear Bull - Blackfoot
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The plate illustrates an ancient Blackfoot method of arranging the hair.
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Calf Child - Blackfoot
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Blackfoot tipis
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Fleshing a hide - Blackfoot
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The implement for removing flesh and fat from hides is a long-bone with a beveled scraping edge. The thong attached to the upper end and passing about the woman's wrist is for the purpose of giving additional leverage.
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Bow River - Blackfoot
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Lodge of the Horn Society - Blood
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The Horn society is the custodian of a cult about which the natives are loath to give details. It stands apart from the system of age-societies, which though partly religious in character were more concerned with warfare and the preservation of order in camp. Numerous taboos apply to the conduct of Horn members, and there are sexual rites in which the wife of a novice and his sponsor participate.
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Sacred bags of the Horn Society - Blood
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Makoyepuk
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Apio-mita
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Stsimaki
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Soyaksin - Blood
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