

CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Foreword xi 



The investigations xi 



The longhouses xiii 



Niawe _. xv 



Linguistic note xvi 



Pakt 1. Description and analysis 1 



Introduction \ 



The longhouse and the people \ 



The study of the songs and dances 2 



The dance cycles 4 



Rituals addressed to the Creator 4 



Great Feather Dance 4 



Thanksgiving or drum dance 5 



Individual chants of men 5 



Rituals addressed to the midpantheon g 



Ashes stirring g 



Eagle Dance g 



Striking-the-stick (Pole) Dance 7 



War Dance or Thunder Rite g 



Scalping Dance g 



Shamanistic cures addressed in part to animal spirits 9 



False Face Company g 



Husk Faces or Bushy Heads 10 



Medicine Company or Society of Shamans H 



Buffalo Society Dance songs 12 



Bear Society Dance songs I3 



Women's medicine societies 13 



Dark Dance I3 



Quavering 14 



Changing-a-rib I5 



Feast for the Dead I5 



Rituals and dances addressed to the Food Spirits Ig 



Society of women planters Ig 



Women's ShufHe Dance Ig 



Corn Dance Ig 



Stomp or Trotting Dance I9 



Hand-in-hand or Linking-arms Dance 20 



Social Dances — stomp type 21 



Shake-the-pumpkin or Shaking-t he-jug 21 



Garters Dance 21 



Passenger Pigeon or Dove Dance 22 



Duck Dance or Song 22 



Shaking-the-bush or Naked Dance 22 



Robin Dance . 23 



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