This objective monument is to be compared with the pictographs above, “making buffalo medicine,” frequent in the Dakota Winter Counts.
Descriptions of ceremonies in medicine lodges and in the initiation of candidates to secret associations have been published with and without illustrations. The most striking of these are graphic ceremonial charts made by the Indians themselves. Figure 38, on page [86], is connected with this subject, as is also No. 7 of Figure 122, page [205]. A good illustration is to be found in Mrs. Eastman’s Dahcotah, or Life and Legends of the Sioux, page 206. Sketches, with descriptions of drawings used in the ceremonials of the Zuñi and Navajo, have been made by Messrs. Cushing and Stevenson and Dr. Matthews, but cannot be published here.
Figure 111a was drawn and interpreted by Naumoff, a Kadiak native, in San Francisco, California, in 1882.
It represents the ground plan of a Shaman’s lodge with the Shaman curing a sick man.
The following is the explanation:
Fig. 111a. Shaman’s lodge. Alaska.
No. 1. The entrance to the lodge.
No. 2. The fire place.