Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. IX. 



Fig. 27. The rawhide human effigy. 



they were the enemies 

 that they most hated. 

 The white represented 

 the earth ; the black the 

 clouds ; hence the figure 

 also represented their 

 enemies, both above and 

 below. Later the same 

 priest took two long 

 pieces of sinew and 

 twisted them, and with 

 the rope thus made he 

 suspended the figure 

 from the center fork. 



The Drum-Stick Rattles. 



It has been noted that ten rawhide objects, to be used as rattles, 

 had been brought into the tipi on this morning, together with a 

 bundle of cottonwood sticks about four feet long. Deafy and another 

 priest began to prepare the sticks and to trim and cut them into 

 equal lengths; one of them was decorated. These were inserted in 

 the mouth of the body of the rattles into which had first been placed 

 pebbles. The place of union of the handle with the rattle was 

 wrapped with sinews and the drum-stick rattles were complete. 



Filling the Sacred Pipe. 



It was then time to refill the sacred straight black pipe that 

 had been smoked on the previous night. As the operation differed 

 somewhat from the first, it 

 is again described in full. 

 (PI. XXV.) The assistant 

 Chief Priest took his place 

 by the side of the sacred 

 bundle, moved his hands 

 toward it four times, picked 

 it up and placed it in front 

 of him. (See Fig. 28.) He 

 untied it and took out the 

 pipe, stem, braided sweet- 

 grass, and piece of sinew, 

 and retied the bundle. He Jb xg. 28. Filling the sacred pipe. 



