[15] This series, Vol. 11, 365-474.
[16] McLean, John, "The Blackfoot Sun Dance" (Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, third series, vol. 6, Toronto, 1888), 235-237.
[17] McLean, as an eye-witness to such a sacrifice, gives the following:—
"As I stood outside the lodge, a young Indian friend of mine, went to an old medicine-woman and presented his sacrifice to Natos. During the year he had gone on a horse-stealing expedition and as is customary on such occasions had prayed to Natos for protection and success, offering himself to his god if his prayers were answered. He had been successful and he now presented himself as a sacrifice. The old woman took his hand held it toward the Sun and prayed, then laying a finger on a block of wood she severed it with one blow from a knife and deer's horn scraper. She held the portion of the finger cut off toward the Sun and dedicated that to him as the young man's sacrifice." (p. 235.)
[18] For musical notation see McClintock, Walter, The Old North Trail, or Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfoot Indians (London, 1910), 311.
[19] McLean, ibid., 231-237; McQuesten, ibid., 1169-1177.
[20] This series, volume 11, 410-418, 430-435.
[21] Goddard, Pliny Earle, "Sarsi Texts" (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 11, no. 3, Berkeley, 1915), 192-195.
[22] Hale, H., "On the North-Western Tribes of Canada" (Report, Fifty-seventh Meeting, British Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 173-200, London, 1888), 198.