Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14578778749)

Identifier: archivesofaborig03scho (find matches)
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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through the secret influence of theIndian meda, or medical doctor, as the physical properties of the simple and compounddecoctions employed. For this purpose, incantations are employed, and the hand-drum and rattles are appealed to, in order to awaken attention and stimulate belief.The faith of the multitude in these practices is, in a great measure, proportioned totheir ignorance and credulity. They regard the rites and ceremonies with a degree ofrespect and awe, as if every village muskikiwininee (medicine-man) was clothed withall power, mystical and pathological. Jannes and Jambres, of Egyptian memory,could not stand in higher respect than do the Indian doctors who dispense their skillwith drum and rattles. To give greater interest to the rites, and to excite deeperfeeling, a series of magic dances are arranged. The arts of these mystical dances are considered so important to the leaders or pro-fessors of this species of occult and hieratic knowledge, that they are recorded by the
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