[192] Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. III, pp. 277, 278.
[193] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, pp. 68, 80.
[194] A similar belief has been held by the Athapascans now on the Siletz reservation, Oregon. This has been published by the author in The American Anthropologist for January, 1889, p. 60.
[195] Smet, Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 142.
[196] Maximilian, Travels in North America, p. 197.
[197] Read in this connection the article by Miss Fletcher on “The Shadow; or, Ghost Lodge: a Ceremony of the Ogallala Sioux,” Rept. of Peabody Museum, vol. II, pp. 296, 307.
[198] These things are probably given by the kindred of the deceased, but Bushotter has not so informed us.
[199] In one of his papers Bushotter says that it is the mother of the deceased person who deposits the food under the scaffold and utters the prayers. John Bruyier, a half-blood Teton from Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, never heard the petition about the horses, for if parents obtained horses after the death of their son, they gave them away.
[200] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, p. 69.
[201]Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 140.