1920.] 



Lowie, Crow Tobacco Society. 



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Crazy-Dogs-wishing-to-die, whence the name. According to this in- 

 formant, the Crazy Dogs and Weasels form the largest Tobacco chapter. 

 Arm-round-the-neck, another Weasel, added some interesting data. 

 When he was a boy the dance of the members differed from that of today. 

 They did not stand up but knelt with whistles in their mouths, which 

 they blew during the dance, while holding white and yellow weasels in 

 their hands. The women still use weasels to dance with, but the male 





Fig. 2 a (50.1-3962ab), b (50.1-3887), c (50.1-3946), d (50.1-3948). Small Tobacco Bags, Rattle, 

 Crane Emblem, and Weasel Emblem. 



members no longer do so, Arm-round-the-neck does not know why not. 

 Now the men use sticks and feathers to dance with. Sometimes men and 

 women dance jointly but in general separately, and in the old days it 

 was the same way. When adopted, the informant's wife received a 

 weasel, the wing of a bird, and an otter, while he merely got a shell 

 necklace, the only thing he had selected. Nearly all the chapters use 

 otters, but only the Weasels have weasel emblems. 



