| Stephen Return Riggs - 1869 - 548 Seiten
...the loon, or one variety of fish and of serpents. It should also contain four species of medicine, of wakan' qualities, which should represent fowls, medicinal herbs, medicinal trees, and quadrupeds. These are represented by the down of the female swan, grass roots, bark from the roots of trees, and... | |
| Stephen Return Riggs - 1869 - 566 Seiten
...the loon, or one variety of fish and of serpents. It should also contain four species of medicine, of wakan' qualities, which should represent fowls, medicinal herbs, medicinal trees, and quadmpeds. These are represented by the down of the female swan, grass roots, bark from the roots of... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology - 1894 - 764 Seiten
...dauce. They ordained that the sack should consist of the skin of the otter, raccoon, weasel, squirrel, loon, one variety of fish, and of serpents. It was...sack. Grass roots represent the second, bark from the roots of the trees the third, and hair from the back or head of a buffalo the fourth. These are carefully... | |
| State Historical Society of North Dakota - 1906 - 572 Seiten
...Unktelii "Ordained that the sack should consist of the skin of the otter, raccoon, weasel, squirrel, loon, one variety of fish, and of serpents. It was...ordained that the sack should contain four species of medicine of wakan qualities, which should represent fowls, medicinal herbs, medicinal trees, and quadrupeds.... | |
| Stephen Return Riggs - 1869 - 538 Seiten
...squirrel, the loon, or one variety offish and of serpents. It should also contain four species of medicine, of wakan'. qualities, which should represent fowls,...medicinal herbs, medicinal trees, and quadrupeds. These are represented by the down of the female swan, grass roots, bark from the roots of trees, and... | |
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