5<i PICT0GRAPH8 OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS 



Some who act like a black bear painl with charcoal alone. 



Some paint in the wind style, sonic in the lightning style, and others 

 in the panther or puma style. 



See also pages 85 and L62. 



WhenaThlink.it arms himself tor war he paints his face and powders 

 his hair a brilliant red. He then ornaments his head with while eagle- 

 feathers, a token of stern vindictive determination. See Bancroft, 

 Native Races, etc., I, page 105. 



Blue siguifes peace among the Indians of the Pueblo of Tesuque. 

 See Schoolcraft, HI, 306. 



In several addresses before the Anthropological Society of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, and papers yet unpublished, iu the possession of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology, by Mr. James Stevenson, Dr. Washington Matthews. I'. 

 S. Army, and Mr. Thomas V. Keam, the tribes below are mentioned as 

 using in their ceremonial dances the respective colors designated to 

 represent the four cardinal poiuts of the compass, viz.: 



N. S. E. W. 



Stevenson — Zuni ... Yellow. Red. White. Black. 



Matthews — Navajo Black. Blue. White. Yellow. 



Keam — Mold White. Red. Yellow. Blue. 



Capt. John G. Bourke, IT. S. Army, in the Snake Dance of the Moquis 

 of Arizona, etc., New York, 1884, p. 120, says that the Moki employ 

 the following colors: yellow iu prayers for pumpkins, green for corn, 

 and red for peaches. Black aud white bauds are typical of rain, while 

 red and blue bands are typical of lightning. 



The Central Californians (north of San Fraucisco Bay) formerly wore 

 the down of Asclepias (?) (white) as an emblem of royalty. See Ban- 

 croft, Native Races, I, 387, 388, quoting Drake's World Encomp. pp. 

 12-1-126. 



The natives of Guatemala wore red feathers in their hats, the nobles 

 only wearing green ones. Ibid, p. 691. 



See with reference to the Haidas, Mr. J. G. Swan's account, page CO, 

 infra. 



The following extract relative to the color red among the New Zea- 

 landers is from Taylor's Te Ika a Maui, etc., pp. 20!)-210. 



Closely connected with religion, was the feeliDg they entertained for the Kura, or 

 Red Paint, which was the sacred color; their idols, Pataka, sacred stages for the 

 dead, and for oiferings or sacrifices, I'lnpa graves, chief's houses, and war canoes, 

 \s ere all thus painted. 



The way of rendering anything tapu was by making it red. When a person died, 

 his house was thus colored; when the tapu was laid on anything, the chief erected a 

 post and painted it with the kura; wherever a corpse rested, some memorial was sel 

 up, oftentimes the nearest stone, rock, or tree served as a monument; but whatever 

 object was selected, it was sure to be made red. If the corpse wire conveyed by 

 water, wherever they landed a similar token was left ; and when it reached its des- 

 tination, the canoe was dragged on shore, thus distinguished, and abandoned. \\ lien 



