[14] Heinrich Schurtz, Altersklassen und Männerbünde, 1902; cf. especially pp. 1–82.

[15] Wherever the phrase “instinct for association” is used, it is an attempt to render the German Geselligkeitstrieb.

[16] S. R. Riggs, Dakota Grammar and Texts.

[17] Hoffman, in Annual Report of Bureau of American Ethnology, vol. vii.

[18] Ibid., vol. xiv.

[19] Boas, The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (Annual Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1895, p. 485).

[20] Migis is the Ojibwa term for the shell used in the Midewiwin. It is employed here as a convenient term to designate the objects used by the Winnebago and Omaha in shooting.

[21] Alanson Skinner (MS.).

[22] Frances Densmore, “Chippewa Music” (Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 45). Washington, Government, 1910.

[23] Annual Archaeological Report, 1905 (Report of Minister of Education, Ontario), p. 146.