 ... their hair. If the child belongs to the Pipe or Eagle sub-gens, charcoal, blue-clay and the skin of a wild-cat are placed beside him, as the articles not to be touched by him in after life. Then they say to him " this you must not touch ; this too...  Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington - Page 132by Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.), Philosophical Society of Washington, Washington, D.C. - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1881 - 824 pages
...the palms of their hands. The members of^the Pipe sub-gens, and those persons in the other sub-geutes who are related to the infant's father through the...Thunder-god is thus addressed : " Well ! venerable man 1 by your striking you are frightening us, your grand-sons who are here. Depart oil high." Then all... | |
 | Science - 1881 - 826 pages
...beside him, as the articles not to be touched by him in after life. Then they say to him " this ypu must not touch ; this too you must not touch, and...sky, and the Thunder-god is thus addressed : " Well I venerable man I by your striking you are frightening us, your grand-sons who are here. Depart on... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1883 - 468 pages
...and this you must not touch." The blue-clay symbolizes the blue-sky. According to the Iowa tradition, the Eagle people came down from the sky.) Worship...sacred prairie-wolf bag, takes out the pipe and the elk-bladder tobacco-pouch which Elk dares not touch, Bear then takes some tobacco or killickinnick... | |
 | America - 1883 - 406 pages
...blue-sky. According to the Iowa tradition, the Eagle people came down from the sky.) Worship of tlic Thunder-God,. — When the first thunder is heard...sacred prairie-wolf bag, takes out the pipe and the elk-bladder tobacco-pouch which Elk dares not touch, Bear then takes some tobacco or killickinnick... | |
 | J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1883 - 392 pages
...Elk people can not touch or cat any part of the male elk or deer. Worship of the Thunder-God.—When the first thunder is heard in the spring of the year,...sacred prairie-wolf bag, takes out the pipe and the elk-bladder tobacco-pouch which Elk dares not touch, Bear then takes some tobacco or killickinnick... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1884 - 812 pages
...considered as equivalent to going on the war path. § 24. Worship of the thunder in the spring. — When the first thunder is heard in the spring of the year the Elk people call to their servants, the Bear people, who proceed to the sacred tent of the Elk gens.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1885 - 822 pages
...considered ae equivalent to going on the war path. § 24. Worship of the thunder in the spring.— When the first thunder is heard in the spring of the year the Elk people call to their servants, the Bear people, who proceed to the sacred tent of the Elk gens.... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department - Anthropology - 1919 - 316 pages
...the tribal war-pipe, which is made of red pipe-stone. . . . Worship of the thunder in the spring. — When the first thunder is heard in the spring of the year the Elk people call to their servants, the Bear people, who proceed to the sacred tent of the Elk gens.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1896 - 976 pages
...the afflicted. In the third report of the Bureau of Ethnology it is stated by J. Owen Dorsey that " when the first thunder is heard in the spring of the year the Elk people (among the Omaha Indians) call to their servants, the Bear people, who proceed to the... | |
 | Science - 1881 - 830 pages
...marry outside of the gens, and under certain restrictions which cannot be given in this paper. (rf.) Law of things prohibited to be touched or eaten. In...sky, and the Thunder-god is thus addressed : " Well I venerable man ! by your striking you are frightening us, your grand-sons who are here. Depart on... | |
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