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SHAMANISM 



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shaman could cure him. It was thou<jflit tlmt tlie I'mgor nails of dead 

 shamans would keep on growiiifr and grow right through hoards. No 

 one would cat anything near places where their bodies lay for fear of 

 being taUen seriously' ill, or 

 even dying. Whene\er (ine 

 passed a shaman's gra\e in a 

 canoe he lowered food and 

 four pieces of tobacco into 

 the sea in front t)f it, sa3'ing, 

 "Give me luck. Do not let 

 me perish. Do not let the 

 wind blow so strongly on me. 

 Let me find otiier food," etc. 

 The eagle claws hung by the 

 urine boxes of living shamans 

 were asked to keep the pe- 

 titioner in health. 



Plate Lviii, 5, c\ d, and e, 

 are said to be models of masks 

 used by a Luija'xAdi shaman 

 at Alsek river, called Weasel- 

 wolf (Gotcda'), and repre- 

 sented his spirits (yek); J> 

 represents a spirit known as 

 Cross Man (AnAxlxa'), called by the maker of this model " the strong- 

 est spirit that there ever was;'' c was called Spirit-put-on (Ada'oii-yek), 



Fin, 113. Anlhropomorphk' t-epresentation of the land 

 otter, carved in bone. 



Fig. 114. Shaman'.s medicine box. 



because it (the mask) was put on in time of war. The tongue is rep- 

 resented as hanging out, because the spirit gets tired in war time. The 

 frog on the forehead represents another spirit; d represents the 



