Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 11order of the trustees, 1916 - Anthropology |
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akicita Arapaho Arikara arrows Assiniboine band bear bearers Black Mouths Blackfoot boys brave brother buffalo Bulls bundle called camp carried ceremony Cheyenne chief circle Clark Wissler cloth Crazy Dog Crow cult Dakota dancers Dog society dream drum drummers eagle feathers enemy feast fire four Foxes give grass dance Gros Ventre ground hair Hairy-coat hand head headdress heyoka Hidatsa horns horse hunt Indians informant iruska J. O. Dorsey join kettle killed Kit-Fox lance leader lodge Lowie Lumpwoods Mandan Maximilian meat medicine membership night officers Oglala okitcita Omaha organization otterskin owner party Pawnee performance peyote Piegan pipe pole Ponca rattles rawhide regalia robe sang sash says scalp shaman side singers singing Sioux Skidí skin smoke soldiers songs stick sun dance text figures tipi tokala told took tribes village Wakanda warriors wear whip whistle wolf Wolf-chief woman women wore yellow young
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Page 493 - The moment the flag is lowered, his functions cease, and the captains' and soldiers' duties commence. They point out the order of the camp, and every cart, as it arrives, moves to its appointed place. This business usually occupies about the same time as raising camp in the morning ; for everything moves with the regularity of clock-work. All being ready to leave Pembina, the captains and other chief men hold another council, and lay down the rules to be observed during the expedition. Those made...
Page 10 - Parties they always go forward without screening themselves behind trees or anything else to this Vow they Strictly adhier dureing their Lives, an instance which happened not long sence, on a party in Crossing the R Missourie on the ice, a whole was in the ice imediately in their Course which might easily have been avoided by going around, the foremost man went on and was lost the others wer draged around by the party, in a battle with the Crow...
Page 13 - I am a Fox. I am supposed to die. If there is anything difficult, If there is anything dangerous, That is mine to do.
Page 365 - Blackfeet: [The] association of the All Comrades consisted of a dozen or more secret societies, graded according to age, the whole constituting an association which was in part benevolent and helpful and in part military, but whose main function was to punish offenses against society at large.4 This association appears to resemble that of the Aki'cita among several other tribes. (See pp. 313, 314.) Lewis and Clark made what is probably the first recorded mention of societies among the men of the...
Page 164 - You are brave, why don't you smoke the pipe?" He wished me to die, that is why he desired me to smoke the...
Page 129 - River," not far below the Falls of St. Anthony (probably near the site of St. Paul, Minn.). The Indians set food before them, but while they were eating, there came other Indians, who took the food from them and plundered the tipi. Hennepin says: We knew not what these Savages were at first; but it appear'd they were some of those that we had left above at the Fall of St. Anthony. One of them, who call'd himself my Uncle, told me, that those who had given us Victuals, had done basely to go and forestall...
Page 649 - They are divided into different bands or classes; that of the pheasant, which is composed of the oldest men; that of the bear, the buffaloe, the elk, the dog, &c. Each of these has its leader, who generally takes the name of the class, exclusively." Initiation into these classes, on arriving at the proper age, and after having given proofs of being worthy of it; is attended with great ceremony. The band of dogs, is considered the most brave and effective in war, being composed of young men under...
Page 171 - There I lay. I heard the Lumpwoods outside. They had taken the wife of a man who had been living with her peacefully for several years. He got furious and was going to kill her with an arrow as she was being shown off. He let fly and barely missed her. The Lumpwoods all scattered. They took revenge on the Foxes by cutting up their robes into strips and pounding their horses
Page 10 - I will here remark a SOCIETY which I had never before this day heard was in any nation of Indians, four of which is at this time present and all who remain of this Band. Those who become Members of this Society must be brave active young men who take a Vow never to give back let the danger be what it may, in War Parties they always go forward without screening themselves behind trees or anything else to this Vow they Strictly adhier dureing their Lives, an instance which happened not long sence...
Page 365 - Their dress was very fine, — bulls' heads and robes. The members of the younger society purchased individually, from the next older one, its rights and privileges, paying horses for them. For example, each member of the Mosquitoes would purchase from some member of the Braves his right of membership in the latter society. The man who has sold his rights is then a member of no society, and if he wishes to belong to one, must buy into the one next higher. Each of these societies kept some old men...