870 REPOllT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



usually, of two to one of tobacco, rubbed together in the palm of the 

 hand and packed into the deep, narrow tube of the Catlinite pipe. 



The outer or dry part of the lips only are placed against the pipe- 

 stem, and the moment a deep long pull is taken the outer corners of the 

 mouth are slightly opened, without removing tlie lips irom the tip, and 

 a deep breath taken in order that as the air enters the mouth some of 



the smoke held therein passes 



^''» vi ^< \^ ^2) /«r along down the trachea into the 



' r^ r TV -o s-v n bronchial tubes, entirely filling 



^^^■^^* the lungs. The ex])iration is per- 



formed by expelling the smoke 

 through the nostrils, at the conclusion of which another deep draw at 

 the stem followed by a like inhalation, this being continued with the 

 regularity of ordinary breathing, at each inspiration smoke passing 

 along with the air into the lungs. 



Frequent coughing spells result and bronchial troubles are very 

 common among the males. The opportunities for close observation 

 were especially good during the writer's detail as surgeon at a military 

 station at a time when the number of Indians upon the ration roll was 

 13,500, and personal experience was abundant also, both in the method 

 of making and the acquirement of a severe attack of bronchitis, though 

 of but limited duration. 



The group represented in fig. 87 is actively engaged in a dance, the 

 various attitudes indicating considerable exertion. The seated figure 

 is holding aloft his shaman tambourine drum, the stroke across the 

 disk indicating the stick with which he produces the perciussion. 



12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 



Fig. 88. 



DANCE AND FEAST. 



The larger figure at the right is the chief officiating personage, and 

 is engaged in chanting. One hand is directed toward the drummer, 

 ■while the other is held aloft, in the act of sui)plicating aid from his 

 daimon or guardian spirit. 



Fig. 88 is one of the very few illustrations of dances, and is perhaps 

 the only one that seems to be of a social character, in consequence of a 

 successful hunt. 



No. 1 is a man making the gesture for )iere^ at this place, having 

 reference to the village of which he is an inhabitant and of which the 

 houses are, in part, shown in Nos. 18, 20, 22, 24, and the storehouse, 

 No. 23. No. 2 is obliterated, and although it appears to resemble a 

 human figure, it is more probably a peak, similar to the ones shown in 

 Nos. 3 and 7. Nos. 4 and 5 are the hunters who, in the shelter of 

 the hill No. 7, are crawling up to within shooting distance of the deer, 



