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Fig. 74. — One of Colonel Leavenworth's unexploded howitzer shells in floor 

 of an earth lodge. The Ankara claim their young men gained war honors by 

 removing the fuses before such shells could explode. 



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Fig. 75. — Floor plan of an Arikara earth lodge, Leavenworth site. Sacred 

 rock and medicine lodge pit in left background. 



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Fig. 76. — Two members of the Owl society passing the sacred cedar and 

 stone before the medicine lodge at Nishu. The man on the right is priest of 

 the last functional Arikara sacred bundle. 



