. Kitchi-Gami : wanderings round Lake Superior. m-bolic, it is very possible they attach such a meaningto the drumstick. The serpentine double line (at d),running parallel, near and over the temple square,Loon-foot said was an allusion to speech. It is theriver of words, he said. And in truth, at their re-ligious ceremonies there is no lack of words, speeches,or, if you like to call them so, sermons. Among the bark papers of another chief, or jossakid,I found a drawing bearing some affinity to those ofLoon-foots I have just described. The owner allowedme to make a copy of it, but, when asked f
. Kitchi-Gami : wanderings round Lake Superior. m-bolic, it is very possible they attach such a meaningto the drumstick. The serpentine double line (at d),running parallel, near and over the temple square,Loon-foot said was an allusion to speech. It is theriver of words, he said. And in truth, at their re-ligious ceremonies there is no lack of words, speeches,or, if you like to call them so, sermons. Among the bark papers of another chief, or jossakid,I found a drawing bearing some affinity to those ofLoon-foots I have just described. The owner allowedme to make a copy of it, but, when asked for an ex-planation, he was more laconic and retiring than Loon-foot. Although he explained very little to me, andthe figures are in the highest sense mysteries to me, Iwill nevertheless insert them here. Perhaps someother person can use them, and explain what I couldnot understand. On one side of the book was the drawing No. 1; onthe other, No. 2. (r JJLli /fTTTiSl @ QD AD (D) Irrfii LLLL \1 mi LI Hi ^7/ TTTT 154 THE DEGREES OF The fragments of explanation which the Indian letfall while I was drawing, amounted to no more thanthe following: The whole, he said, was a representation of la grande medecine, or a symbolic representation ofthe religious system of the Indians, their ceremonies,order of Mides, and also their hierarchy to a certainextent. The drawing at 1 in No. 2, is the road wewander along before we enter. (I was obliged tocontent myself with learning that there was a speciesof preparatory school or disciplining of the did not learn in what consisted the trials of this road,probably referred to in the dots and cross strokes.) Figure 2 is once again the great temple wigwam,with the divisions of the degrees of consecration. Thefour small rules and dots at the four corners,a a a a, represent the four quarters of the , then, circles were used to describe what hadbeen drawn in figures on the last picture. My Mentor would not lead me into
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