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in the singing for about twelve mimites, when he began to vomit 

 violently over himself and the ground. Then came a rest of a few 

 minutef, when he rested and washed himself off. But soon all began 

 again, when he worked up to the woman and, as near as I could see, 

 X)lnced his mouth on her chest or sboulders and sucked very strongly 

 and then blew out of his mouth with all his force, making a great noise, 

 sometimes blowing into the air, always renmining on his knees. This 

 was kept up about titteeu minutes longer, when 1 left during another 

 respite. But this was neither the beginning nor end of the tamanous. 

 Sometimes they kept it up for most of the day and night or longer. 

 The agency physician said she had disease of the brain, but at no time 

 was very dangerously ill. He afterwards attended her very faithfully, 

 and the Indians tamanoused as faithfully, and she recovered. The fol- 

 lowing account was given me by a school-boy in regard to his brother: 



" When 1 was at the Indian doctor's house they tamanoused over my 

 brother, for that is the reason my parents went to his house. First, he 

 learned what was the kind of sickness. The doctor took it and soon 

 after that my brother, about nine or ten years old, became stiff and 

 while 1 sat I heard my father say that his breath was gone. I went out, 

 for I did not wish to see my brother lying dead before me ; when I 

 came back he was breathing just a little but his eyes were closed; the 

 doctor was taking care of his breath with his tamanous and waiting for 

 more persons to come, so that there should be enough to beat on the 

 sticks when he should tamanous so as to learn the kind of sickness. 

 Then he went on and saw that there was another kind of sickness be- 

 sides the one he had taken out and it went over ray brother and almost 

 immediately killed him. The doctor took it and travelled (in his spiiit) 

 with another kind of temanous to see where my brother's spirit was; 

 he found it at Humhummi (15 miles distant), where my parents and 

 brother had camped in a recent journey. So my brother became better 

 after a hard tamanous. 



" There is a class of persons which we can not see; they are poor look- 

 ing persons ; they take young people from these and other Indians ; 

 ■when they take a certain person that person always gets crazy. Another 

 brother of mine heard their dog barking ; the people thought it was from 

 some white i)eople, but there was no white man near and they knew it 

 belonged to these people." 



I once witnessed a performance which I have been inclined to call a 

 silent tamanous. I was camped with five canoes of Indians one night 

 in February, 1878, one of our number being a medicine man ; after supper 

 some water was poured into a bowl not far from a woman who I had 

 not learned was ill, but she must have been ailing a little; she was sit- 

 ting perhaps 10 feet from me. The doctor went to the bowl but no one 

 else seemed to take any notice of it; the woman's husband went away. 

 Another woman lay unconcerned in the camp, it being a half-circle mat 

 house, and other Indians were about, but they did not come near; there 



