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Many similarities may be traced between the accomits of the grass 

 dance already cited and the descriptions of the dream danoe, as 

 practiced by the Menomini and the Chippewa. These resemblances 

 touch, among other thmgs, the custom of "presenting the pipe to 

 the sky," the position of the drum in the dancing circle, the wearing 

 of "crow belts," and the custom of divorce in connection with the 

 ceremony of the society.^ 



Mr. Higheagle said that two kinds of grass dance are now danced 

 on the Standmg Rock Reservation— the old men's grass dance aiid 

 the young men's. The former is sho\vn in figure 88, reproduced 



Fig. 38. Grass dance. 



from a photograph taken several years ago on tliat reservation and 

 identified by Mr. Higheagle. This view undoubtedly presents some of 

 the old features of the dance which have been changed by the present 

 generation. 



An instrmnent used in connection with this dance is called an elk 

 whistle Qielia'Tca si'yotaylca). (Fig. 39.) Mr. Higheagle states that 

 this instrument is called by the Santee and Yanktonais co'tayTca 

 (('o, 'pith'; tay'lca, 'large')- Tlie whistle was made from the small, 

 straight branches of a tree having a large pith, which could easily 



1 Cf. (1) Hoffman, Walter James, The Menomini Indians, Fourteenth Rep. Bur. Ethn., pp. 157-161, 

 Washington, ISOO. 



(2) liarrctt, S. A., The Dream'Dance of the Chippewa and Menomini Indians of Nortliern Wisconsin, 

 Bull. Pub. Mus. Milwaukee, i, art. 4, Milwaukee, 1911. 



(3) Skinner, Alanson, Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians, Anthr. Papers, 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xin, pt. 1, p. 30, New York, 1913. 



(4) Bulletin S3, Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 142-180. 



(5) Concerning the custom of divorce, see also Beckwith, I'aul, Notes on Customs of the Dakotahs, 

 SmiUison Rep., 1886, pt. 1, p. 256, Washington, 1889. 



