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PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NO' Til AMERICAN INDIANS. 



The two eyes are about 6 inches in diameter and 4 inches apart and the nose about 

 9 inches long. It is said to have been made by soni9 man a long time ago, who felt 

 very badly, and went and sat on the rock, and with another stoue hammered out the 



Fig. 108.— Thunder-bird. Haida. 



eyes and nose. For a long time they believed that it' the rock was shaken it would 

 cause rain, probably because the thunder bird was angry. 



Graphic representations of Atotarko and of the Great Heads are 



Fig. 109.— Tliuuder-biid. Twana. 



shown in Mrs. Erminnie A. Smith's Myths of the Iroquois, in the 

 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Mythic Person- 

 ages are also presented in aboriginal drawing by Mr. Charles G. Leland 

 in bis work, the Algonquin Legends of New England, etc. Boston, 1884. 



SHAMANISM. 



The term Shamanism is a corrupted form of the Sanscrit word for 

 ascetic. Its original application was to the religion of certain tribes of 

 northern Asia, but in general it expresses the worship of spirits with 

 magic arts and fetich-practices. The Shaman or priest pretends to con- 

 trol by iucantatious and ceremonies the evil spirits to whom death, sick- 

 ness, and other misfortunes are ascribed. This form or stage of religion 



