Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, 3. köide1877 |
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Page 14 - Provincial troops" obviously not understanding French), reports it as "about 4 feet long, bowl of red marble, stem of a light wood curiously painted with hieroglyphics in various colors and adorned with feathers. Every nation has a different method of decorating these pipes and can tell at once to what band it belongs. It is used as an introduction to all treaties, also as a flag of truce is among Europeans.
Page 110 - It is said to have been made a long time ago by a man who felt very badly and went and sat on the rock and with another stone hammered out the eyes and nose. For a long time they believed that if the rock was shaken it would cause rain; because the shaking made the thunder bird angry.
Page 15 - Nadowessies) in 1766-'77, explains that " besides the name of the animal by which every nation or tribe [clan] is denominated, there are others that are personal, which the children receive from their mother. * * * The chiefs are distinguished by a name that has either some reference to their abilities or to the hieroglyphic of their families, and these are acquired after they have arrived at the age of manhood. Such as have signalized themselves either in their war or hunting parties, or are possessed...
Page 19 - Bloody battle with the Crows, of whom it is said twenty-three were killed. Nothing in the sign denotes number, it being only a man figure with red or bloody body and red war bonnet.
Page 17 - No. I. Large dirt lodge made by Sans Arcs. The figure at the top of the lodge is a bow. No. II. The Sans Arcs made the first attempt at a dirt lodge. This was at Peoria Bottom, Dakota Territory. Crow-Feather was their chief, which fact, in the absence of the other charts, seemed to explain the fairly-drawn feather of that bird protruding from the lodge top, but the figure must now be admitted to be a badly drawn bow, in allusion to the tribe Sans Arc, without...
Page 89 - If he guesses right, he wins and plays next; but if his conjecture is incorrect, he loses, and the other side continues to play. The two rows of players are 10 or 12 feet apart. Generally they have six or more sets of these blocks, so that if, as they suppose, luck does not attend one set they can try another. These different sets are marked on the edges to distinguish them from other sets. Another way of distinguishing them is by having them of slightly different sizes. They are made very smooth...
Page 13 - in which the geese lay eggs." As the appearance of raccoons after hibernation, the causes inducing inflamed eyes, and oviposition by geese vary with the meteorological character of each year, and as the twelve lunations reckoned do not bring back the point in the season...
Page 21 - At first the writer suspected that the medicine men had manufactured some pretended portent out of a foetus taken from a real cow, but the Dakotas have long believed in the appearance from time to time of a monstrous animal that swallows human beings. This superstition was perhaps suggested by the bones of mastodons, often found in the territory of those Indians ; and the buffalo being the largest living animal known to them, its name was given to the legendary monster, in which nomenclature they...
Page 111 - ... angry. They have now about lost faith in it, so much so that about two years ago they formed a boom of logs around it, many of which struck it. That season was stormy and many of the older Indians said " No wonder, as the rock is shaken all of the time.
Page 82 - The deer or elk hide is soaked for two days and the hair removed by scraping it with a rough iron. It is then soaked a half day with the deer brains in hot water over the fire, the brains being rubbed over something like soap. It is then stretched and rubbed with rocks until it becomes soft and pliable, when they dig a hole in the ground, build a fire of rotten wood or cedar bark, stretch the skin over it and cover it with blankets, thus smoking it, after which it is fit for use.