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If we look at Crow ceremonialism with reference to spectacular per- 

 formances, we also find very few that properly come under this head, 

 the Tobacco complex, the Sun dance and to a decidedly lesser extent 

 the Medicine Pipe ceremony and the Bear Song dance, the last-mentioned 

 partaking of the nature of a shamanistic exhibition. The Cooked Meat 

 Singing may also be cited as a performance of a certain solemnity in 

 which a fairly large number of individuals participate. 



It is further interesting to note that apart from the Tobacco society 

 (and perhaps we might add the essentially alien Horse society), the 

 Crow tendency is not to associate medicines with organizations properly 

 so called. The germ of organization, to be sure, exists, viz., the con- 

 ception of a ceremonial transfer as an adoption; but with the excep- 

 tions noted the germ has not given rise to societies but to individual 

 relationships, possibly multiple but still individual. That is, a man may 

 adopt several persons so that they will share in his medicine but generally 

 their having a common 'father' is not stressed and they thus fail to 

 form a definite body. The Tobacco medicine gave rise to a society 

 precisely because the common ceremonial relationship was recognized. 



The place of the Tobacco dance in Crow ceremonial life may 

 possibly be elucidated by the following tentative tabular statement: 



Societies 



II 



Without Adoption (a) Military Clubs (Foxes, Lumpwoods, 



Big Dogs, etc.) 

 (b) Modern Clubs (Night Hot Dancers, 



Big Ear-hole, etc.) 

 With formal adoption (a) Tobacco 

 (b) Horse 



Individual and Shamanistic 



(Tobacco 

 '(a) By definite \ Horse 



groups [Medicine Pipe 



Ceremonies 



II Group performances^ 



III Tribal: Sun Dance 



(b) By tempo- fCooked Meat 

 rary groups j Singing 



I Bear Song Dance 



