maliery.] SHAMAN'S LODGE MORTUARY PRACTICES 197 



A chart of this character appears to have been seen among the 

 natives of New Holland by Mr. James Manning, but not copied or fully 

 described in his Notes on the Aborigines of New Holland (Jour, of 

 Royal Society, New South Wales, Vol. XVI, p. 167). He mentions it 

 in connection with a corrobery or solemn religious ceremony among 

 adults, as follows: "It has for its form the most curious painting upon 

 a sheet of bark, clone in various colors of red, yellow, and white ochre, 

 which is exhibited by the priest." Such objects would be highly im- 

 portant for comparison, and their existence beiug known they should 

 be sought for. 



MORTUARY PRACTICES. 



Several devices indicating death are presented under other headings 

 of this paper. See, for example, page 103 and the illustrations in con- 

 nection with the text. 



According to Powers, "A Yokaia widow's style of mourning is pecu- 

 liar. In addition to the usual evidences of grief she mingles the ashes 

 of her dead husband with pitch, making a white tar or unguent, with 

 which she smears a band about 2 inches wide all around the edge of the 

 hair (which is previously cut off close to the head), so that at a little 

 distance she appears to be wearing a white chaplet." (See Contrib. to 

 N. A. Bthnol., Ill, p. 1G(>.) Mr. Horsey reports that mud is used by a 

 mourner in the sacred-bag war party among theOsages. Many object- 

 ive modes of showing mouruing by styles of paint and markings are 

 known, the significance of which are apparent when discovered in 

 pictographs. 



Figure 112 is copied from a piece of ivory in the museum of the Alaska 

 Commercial Company, San Francisco, California, and was interpreted 

 by an Alaskan native in San Francisco in 1882. 



No. 1. Is a votive offering or "Shaman stick," erected to the memory 

 of one departed. The "bird" carvings are considered typical of "good 

 spirits," and the above was erected by the 

 remorse-stricken individual, No. 3, who had g* 

 killed the person shown in No. 2. 



No. 2. The headless body represents the 

 man who was killed. In this respect the 

 Ojibwa manner of drawing a person "killed" 

 is similar. 



No. 3. The individual who killed No. 2, and fig. 112— Votive offering. Alaska. 

 who erected the "grave-post" or "sacred 



stick." The arm is thrown earthward, resembling the Blackfeet aud 

 Bakota gesture for " kill." 



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