A dead man’s skin is Manito.
Sometimes they use sacks of human skin to contain their medicines, and they fancy that something is thus added to their efficacy.
13. Me-nee-sing, a-be-gwain neen-ge-wun-naijh che-hah-ga-to-ga me-nee-sing a-be-gwain, whe-he-ya!
Were she on a distant island, I can make her crazy to swim over, were she on a distant island.
Here he again boasts of the power of his medicine over the inclinations of females. This song seems to present a fair view of the state of the passion of love among the Ojibbeways.
Song of a medicine man, at the giving of medicine to a sick person.
Fig. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Fig. 1. Neen-gaw-gaw wain-e-me-ko o-ho-i-ah a-nish-a nau-ba.