Smoking-star, a Blackfoot Shaman
A Blackfoot medicine man’s tepee, by the shore of a lake, in the foothills. The border, typical beadwork pattern. At bottom, a medicine pipe, a medicine bundle, wand used by medicine man, and beavers.
Little-wolf Joins the Medicine Lodge
Center, a medicine lodge, roofed with sheets of birch-bark; the walls are upright sticks. At sides, otter-skin medicine bags. Below, a ceremonial drum of wood covered with stretched buckskin. A medicine pipe. The shells used in “shooting medicine,” with their bead necklaces. At top, gourd medicine rattles. The patterns are from typical beadwork and the dyed mats used in lodges.
Thunder-cloud, a Winnebago Shaman, Relates and Prays
Center, the Beings invoked in the prayers, appearing in the smoke from a medicine pipe. Ornament, typical beadwork.
How Meskwaki Children Should Be Brought Up
Central background, typical beadwork. Center, a warrior’s neck ornament with bear claws; woman’s necklace of bone and beads; crossed below, a war club and the stick used in the ball game. At sides, the beaded cylinders are those through which a woman’s hair passes; the long straps hang as ornaments. Typical moccasins.
In Montagnais Country
An Indian calling moose with a birch-bark horn. Across top a ceremonial carrying-strap. Snowshoes. At sides, knives, spearhead, fishhook. At bottom, birch-bark baskets, wooden spoons, ceremonial pipe. The patterns, typical beadwork.