. Bulletin. Ethnology. 410 EAGLE HILLS ASSINIBOIN EARTH LODGE [ B. A. E. eagles. Near the present Hopi villages there are shrines in -which offerings of eagle eggs carved from wood are placed during the winter solstice for the increase of eagles. Among the Zufii, feathers shed by their captive eagles have special sig- nificance, though the feathers are also regularly plucked and form a staple arti- cle of trade. The mythology of almost every tribe is replete with eagle beings, and the wide- spread thunderbird myth relates in some cases to the eagle. In Hopi myth the Man-eagle is a sky-beingwho
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 410 EAGLE HILLS ASSINIBOIN EARTH LODGE [ B. A. E. eagles. Near the present Hopi villages there are shrines in -which offerings of eagle eggs carved from wood are placed during the winter solstice for the increase of eagles. Among the Zufii, feathers shed by their captive eagles have special sig- nificance, though the feathers are also regularly plucked and form a staple arti- cle of trade. The mythology of almost every tribe is replete with eagle beings, and the wide- spread thunderbird myth relates in some cases to the eagle. In Hopi myth the Man-eagle is a sky-beingwholaysasidehis plumage after flights in which he spreads devastation, and the hero who slays him is carried to the house in the sky by eagles of several species, each one in its turn bearing him higher. The Man- eagle myth is widelj^ diffused, most triljes regarding this being as a manifestation of either heljiful or maleficent power. See Fewkes, Property Rights in Eagles among the Hopi, Am. Anthrop., ii, 690- 707,1900; Hoff- man in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1896; Mooney (1) ibid., (2) in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 1900. Eagle Hills Assiuiboin. A band of Assini- boi n of 35 lodges living in 1808 between Bear hills and South Saskatch-. PAWNEE EARTH LODGE ewan r., Assiniboia, Canada.—Henry- Thompson Jour., Cones ed., ii, 523, 1897. Earth lodge. A dwelling partly under- ground, circular in form, from 30 to 60 ft in diameter, with walls about 6 ft high, on which rested a dome-shaped roof with an opening in the center to afford light within and to permit the egress of smoke. The entrance was a projecting passage- way from 6 to 14 ft long. The method of construction was first to draw a circle on the ground and excavate the earth within it from 2 to 4 ft deep. About 1^ ft within the circle were set crotched posts some 8 or 10 ft apart, on which were laid beams. Outside these posts were set others, one end of them braced against the bottom of the bank of earth at the periphery of the circle, and th
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