. Bulletin. Ethnology. Whale Fetish Eskimo. OF wood; wester (Murdoch ). Fetish of Dried Bees Box; WESTERN ESKI^ (Murdoch) the owner's mind at least, some symlwlic connection with occult power. It might be fastened to the scalp-lock as a pend- ant, attached to some part of the dress, hung from the bridle bit, concealed be- tween the covers of a shield, or guarded in a special repository in the dwelling. Mothers sometimes tied the fetish to the child's cradle. "A fetish noted among the Sioux is de- scribed as the image of a little man, which was inclosed in a cylindrical wooden case and env
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Whale Fetish Eskimo. OF wood; wester (Murdoch ). Fetish of Dried Bees Box; WESTERN ESKI^ (Murdoch) the owner's mind at least, some symlwlic connection with occult power. It might be fastened to the scalp-lock as a pend- ant, attached to some part of the dress, hung from the bridle bit, concealed be- tween the covers of a shield, or guarded in a special repository in the dwelling. Mothers sometimes tied the fetish to the child's cradle. "A fetish noted among the Sioux is de- scribed as the image of a little man, which was inclosed in a cylindrical wooden case and enveloped in sacred swan's down (Riggs). A hunting and divining fetish among the Cherokee consisted of a trans- parent crystal, which its owner kept wrap- ped up in buckskin in a sacred cave and oc- casionally fed by rub- bing over it the l)lood of a deer. The Pueblo tribes have nu- merous war and hunting fetishes of stone, small figurines cut to resemble various predatory animals, with eyes of inlaid turquoise and one or more arrow- heads bound at the back or side, and smeared with frequent oblations of blood from the slain game. The protective amulet sometimes took the form of a small figurine of a bird or other animal swift in flight, as the hawk; silent in movement, as the owl; or expert in dodg- ing, as the dragonfly. In all tribes the nature and mysterious origin of the per- sonal fetish or 'medicine' were the secret of the individual owner or of the maker, who, as a rule, revealed it only to one formally chosen as heir to the mystic pos- session and pledged in turn to the same ; Consult Bourke in 9th Rep. B. A. E., 1892; Clark, Indian Sign Language, 1885; Cushing, Zuni Fetishes, 2d Rep. B. A. E., 1883; Jesuit Relations, Thwaites ed., 1896-1901; Lafitau, INIoeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains, 1724; Maximilian, Travels, 1843; Midler, Orig. and Growth of Re- ligion, 1879; Murdoch in 9th Rep. B. , 1892: Nelson in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 1899; Riggs, Gospel Among the Da
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