Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14785286933)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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^ and also of giving them success in hunting. In his right hand heholds a rattle of deex-hoofs. There are sixty-four deei-claws in this rattle,-or, as theysay, the deer-claws of eight deer. In his \el\ hand ho carries a bow and arrow; andalthougli the arrow is made blunt by chewing it, still he can send it through the largestanimals. From his cap are streaks of liglitning, so brilliant as to dazzle the eyes ofanimals, and thus enable him to approach close to them. In his mouth is a whistle.
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LLlAF E ©OAMU AND MAGIC. 487 which is used in the dance to invoke tlic assistance of this god. When the Indians havehad hick in hunting, they get up a dance to invoke the assistance of this god. Fig. 3, Wo-hun-de-dan, or Aurora Borealis, or Old Woman, or Goddess of War. TheDacotahs worsliip this god under the ahove names. When they are about going towar, the war-cliief invokes this god, who appears to him as represented in Fig. E,and instructs him how to act, where he will find the enemy, their condition, the suc-cess and misfortunes that will attend the war-party. The goddess is represented withhoops on her arms; and as many of these as she throws on the ground, indicates thenumber of scalps the party will take. If the party is to have bad luck, she will throwto tlie ground as many broken arrows as there will be warriors killed and wounded.The little balls running out from the cap (see Plate) represent tufts of down, whichthe Indians wear on the head after having killed an enemy. Th