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Ceremonial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians
Ceremonial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians Author:Clark Wissler General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: The Trustees Subjects: Siksika Indians Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies History / Native American Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Notes: This is a blac... more »k and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: /. Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fig. 4 (5O-5418). A Scarf regarded as a War Medicine Blood. Fig. 5 (5O-5420). A Scarf of Otterskin, a War Medicine. Piegan. her of feathers are arranged in groups on the specimen and refer to birds in general as the song is, " All flying beings are sun-powerful; they hear me." There is one song for the otter: "I am swinging around in the water." The bells are shaken as an accompaniment to this. The charm was accumulated by transfers and individual experiences. When the owl appeared to the owner, it forbade his being struck with a moccasin for he would be wounded in that place, all others being invulnerable. The owl also gave power over horses as evidenced by a bit of horse hair. Two face paintings are associated with the formula. The jay bird bore a formula useful in treating disease for which the face was painted yellow with blue on the forehead. When on the warpath, the face was painted yellow and dotted over with blue to represent the owl; for this there is a song, "I [the owl] am looking for something to eat [an enemy or a horse]." On the whole, the preceding charms may be considered as personal war bundles. We pass now to a class of objects used by medicinemen, though the distinctions are by no means absolute. The head and neck of an owl (50-4437) was used by a Piegan whose personal narratives are given on p. 8. There is a beaded...« less