Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1889) (14774538232)

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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Year: 1880 (1880s)

Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology

Subjects: Ethnology Indians

Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

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head bent down-ward, but with shoulders erect, and she is shaking her head and bodyby bending her knees often without raising her feet from the ground.She abstains from food and drink, just as her brother or kinsman wouldhave done had he participated in the dance. In fact, all the candi-dates have to fast from the time that the sun pole is cut, and from thattime they crj- and dance at intervals. § 180. If the owner of a horse decides that his steed must take part in the dance, he ties the horse to one of the thongs fastened to the sun-pole, and stands near the animal. Whenever he wishes he approachesthe horse, takes him by the lower jaw as he stands and cries, and thenhe, too, joins in the dance. This horse is decorateu in the finest man-ner; he is painted red, his tail is rolled up into a bundle and tied to-gether, and he wears feathers in the tail and forelock. § 181. Candidates scarified. When the time comes for scarifying the Bureau of Ethnology Eleventh Annual Report Plate XLVl

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PTEPA KIN WACI.- 2 OKASKA NAZIN DORSET.) BUSHOTTER ON THE SUN DANCE. 461 candidates,^ if one wishes to dauce iu the manner about to be described,he is made to stand between four posts arranged in tlie form of asquare, and his flesli on his back being scarified in two places, thongsare run through them and fastened to them and to the posts behindhim. His chest is also scarified in two places, thongs are inserted andtied, and then fastened to the two posts in front of him (see PI. xlvii, 1,Okaska uazin, or He stands fastened to or within). Bushottersays nothing about the skewers used in torturing the dancers; butCapt. Bourke obtained three ornamental ones which had been runthrough the wounds of some of the devotees, in order to be stained withblood and kept thereafter as souvenirs of the bravery of the dancers.Besides these were the regular skewers which were thrust horizontallythrough the flesh; and to the ends of these skewers were fastened thethongs that were secured by the opposite

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