. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . danced, holding two eagle plumes in the left hand and rattle inthe right. After a time, transferring the rattle to his left hand, helifted a gourd of water from the vase and, holding it for a moment,waved it before the altar and emptied it into the medicine bowlwith an appeal to the cougar of the north to intercede with the cloudpeople that the earth might be watered; another gourdful immediatelyfollowed; he then took the rattle in the right hand and joined in thesong, and danced. A third time he dippe
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . danced, holding two eagle plumes in the left hand and rattle inthe right. After a time, transferring the rattle to his left hand, helifted a gourd of water from the vase and, holding it for a moment,waved it before the altar and emptied it into the medicine bowlwith an appeal to the cougar of the north to intercede with the cloudpeople that the earth might be watered; another gourdful immediatelyfollowed; he then took the rattle in the right hand and joined in thesong, and danced. A third time he dipped a gourd of water, waved ittoward the west with an exhortation to the bear of the west, andemptied it into the bowl, following this with another gourdful, when aweird call was given for the cloud people to come and water the he danced and sang, and after a time a fifth goiirdful was liftedand waved toward the south, with an appeal to the badger of the south,and emptied into the bowl, when another gourdful followed, and feuREAU OF ETHNOLOfiV P;PvFiTH ! oFooRT r*. ^ %. .%*;-
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