. Kitchi-Gami : wanderings round Lake Superior. le voix, le tonnerre de lOrient.(Perhaps the figure is a species of thunderbolt, andrefers to the first spring storm.) To No. 4: LEsprit nous donnera des fruits. Thesign represents a tree with fruit. (Summer ?) To No. 5: Lhomme qui fume la pipe et lenfantqui tire la fleche. (A pipe for the man and arrowfor the boy.) To No. 6 : Lours qui cherche une place ou lariviere nest pas profonde. (Return of the bear inautumn from the prairies to the northern forests?) To No. 7: Loiseau senvole pour chercher sapature. (Return of the migratory birds from then
. Kitchi-Gami : wanderings round Lake Superior. le voix, le tonnerre de lOrient.(Perhaps the figure is a species of thunderbolt, andrefers to the first spring storm.) To No. 4: LEsprit nous donnera des fruits. Thesign represents a tree with fruit. (Summer ?) To No. 5: Lhomme qui fume la pipe et lenfantqui tire la fleche. (A pipe for the man and arrowfor the boy.) To No. 6 : Lours qui cherche une place ou lariviere nest pas profonde. (Return of the bear inautumn from the prairies to the northern forests?) To No. 7: Loiseau senvole pour chercher sapature. (Return of the migratory birds from thenorth to seek food in the south ?) To No. 8: La femme a prepare le plat pour sonmari et le lui presente. (Return of the hunter to hissquaw ?) 158 A GRAVESTONE. To No. 9 : LEsprit a inspire le sauvage avec cetteinvention, pour devenir plus poli. I said that I fancied I traced some song of theseasons in the whole, but I cannot make head or tailof the last sign or verse. On one of the graves in the Indian cemetery hereI saw the following drawings:. No. 1 was a representation of the sky. No. 2 a picture of the sun. The lower part of thesky was, as usual, blue or green, the framework above,black. The sun was painted red in the centre, but thebeams were black. I was told—and this was certainlyplain enough—that this was done as a sign of mourn-ing. The idea of a sky covered with mourning, anda sun toned clown to a solemn hue, is really remark-able—I might say grand—for an Indian. The ideacan be regarded in two lights. Either we may sup-pose that it is intended to describe how sun and skybecame gloomy to the deceased, as his eye closed indeath, or, with reference to the survivors, that, aftertheir loss, the sun seems to have lost its radiancy,and even the entire sky is set in a framework ofmourning. All the grave coverings, made of wood, have a FOOD FOR THE DEAD. 159 small hole cut in the side. The relations place foodin it for their dead. A friend or a relative, in pass-ing, wi
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