534 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



The Indians from the North Pacific coast seen visiting the mission 

 of San Francisco, by Kot/ebue in 181(i, &quot;hart their long disordered 

 hair covered with down. 



Bancroft says of the Nootka of the northwest coast of British 

 America: &quot;the, hair is powdered plentifully with white feathers, which 

 are regarded as the crowning ornament for manly dignity in all these 

 regions.&quot; 2 



The bird s down used by the Haida of British North America in 

 their dances seems very closely related to hoddentin. They not only 

 put it upon their own persons, but &quot; delight to communicate it to their 

 partners in bowing,&quot; and also &quot; blow it into the air at regular intervals 

 through a painted tube.&quot; They also scattered down as a sign of wel 

 come to the first European navigators. 3 



In all these dances, ceremonial visits, and receptions of strangers the 

 religious element can be discerned more or less plainly. The Indians 

 west of the Mississippi with whom Father Hennepin was a prisoner in 

 1680, and who appear to have been a branch of the Sioux (Issati or 

 Santee and Nadouessan), had a grand dance to signali/e the killing 

 of a bear. On this occasion, which was participated in by the &quot;prin- 

 cipaux chefs et guerriers,&quot; we learn that there was this to be noted in 

 their dress: &quot; ayant meine leurscheveuxfrottez d huile d ours & parse- 

 mez de plumes, rouges & blanches & les tetes chargees de duvet 

 d oiseaux.&quot; 4 



&quot; Swan s and bustard s down &quot; was used by the Accaucess [i. e., the 

 Arkansas of the Siouan stock] in their religious ceremonies. 5 



Of the war dress of the members of the Five Nations we learn from 

 an early writer: &quot;Their heads [previously denuded of all hair except 

 that of the crown] are painted red down to the eye-brows and sprinkled 

 over with white down.&quot; 6 



The Indians of Virginia at their war dances painted themselves to 

 make them more terrible: &quot;Pour se rendre plus terriblee, ils sement 

 des plumes, du duvet, ou du poil de quelque bete sur la peintnre toute 

 fraiche.&quot; 7 Down was also used by the medicine-men of the Carib. 8 

 The down of birds was used in much the same way by the tribes of 

 Cuinana, a district of South America not far from the mouth of the 

 Orinoco, in the present territory of Venezuela; 9 by the Tupinambis, of 

 Brazil, who covered the bodies of their victims with it; &quot; by the (Jhirib- 



1 Voyage, vol. 1 , p. 282. 

 &quot;Native Kaces, vol. 1. i&amp;gt;. 17!). 

 3 Ibid., vol. 1, pp. 170, 171. 



4 I ere Louis neuuepiu, Voyage, etc., Amsterdam, 1714, j&amp;gt;p. 330-240. Ibid., translated by li. ! . 

 French, in Historical Collections of Louisiana, pt. 1, 1846. 



6 Joutel s Journal, in Historical Collections of Louisiana, tr. by 15. F. French, pp. 181, 1840. 

 *Maj. Rogers, Account of North America, in Knox s Voyages, vol. 2, London, 1707, p. 1(17. 

 7 Pirart, Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses, etc., Amsterdam, 17:15. vol. (1, p. 77. 

 &quot;Ibid., p. 89. 



John Do Laet, lib. 18, cap. 4 ; Gomara, Hist, de las 1 ndias, p. 20;i ; 1 adre ( ; umilhi. Orinoco, pp. 68. 96. 

 1 Huns Staden, in Ternaux-Compaiis, Voyages, vol. :{, pp. 269,299. 



