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of its featluTs, l)iit it was t'ssciitial tliat the IkkIv miisl iidt he mangled (iruiiv IiIckkI be 

 drawn. The Piiel)lns were sometiiiics aeeustomeil to take the voim^ eatjles from the 

 nest and keep them in oasrea for their feathers. A full tail contains twelve large 

 feathei-s of the kind used for war bonnets and on the wands of the Eagle <iance. 



Stuckadc — Stoi-kaded villages were eomnion to the Iroquois and most of the tribes 

 along the Atlantic coast. Thev are mentioned also among the C^herokee in some of 

 the exaggerated narrative.* of the early Spanish period, but were entirely unknown 

 within the later colonial period, and it. is very doubtful if the nature of the country 

 woidd permit such compact mode of settlement. 



Dancers went forward — The method of ceremonial api)roach here de.scriV)ed wa.s 

 proliably more or less general among the eastern tribes. On the plains the visitors 

 usually dismount in sight of the other camp and advance on foot in slow procession, 

 chanting the "visiting song," while the leader holds out the red stone pipe, which 

 is the symbol of truce or friendship. For a good descripticm of such a ceremonial, 

 reproiluced from Battey, see the author's Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians, 

 in the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. In this 

 instance the visiting Pawnee carried a flag in lieu of a pipe. 



The Cherokee ceremonial is thus described by Timberlake as witnessed at Citico 

 in 1 "<)•_' : • About 100 yards from the town-house we were received by a body of between 

 three and four hundred Indians, ten or twelve of which were entirely naked, except 

 a piece of c'loth about their middle, and painted all over in a hideous manner, .six of 

 them with eagles' tails in their hands, which they shook and tiourisheil as they 

 adxanced, danced in a very uncommon figure, singing in concert with some drums 

 of tlieir own make, and those of the late imfortunate Cai)t. Daraere; with several 

 other instruments, uncouth beyond description. Cheulah, the headman of the town, 

 led the procession, painted blood-red, except his face, which was half black, holding 

 an old rusty broad-sword in his right hand, and an eagle's tail in his left. As they 

 approached, Cheulah, singling himself out from the rest, cut two or three capers, as 

 a signal to the other eagle-tails, who instantly followed his example. This violent 

 exercise, accompanied by the band of musick, and a loud yell from the mob, lasted 

 about a minute, when the headman, waving his sword o\er my head, struck it into 

 the ground, about two inches from my left foot; then directing himself to me, made 

 a short discourse (which my interpreter told me was only to bid me a hearty wel- 

 come) and presented me with a string of beads. We then proceeded to the door, 

 where Cheulah, and one of the beloved men, taking me by each arm, led me in, 

 and seated me in one of the first seats; it was so dark that nothing was percep- 

 tible till a fresh supply of canes were brought, which being liurnt in the middle of 

 the house answers both purposes of fuel and candle. I then discovered about five 

 hundred faces; and Cheulah addressing me a second time, made a speech much to 

 the same effect as the former, congratulating me on my safe arrival thnj' the numer- 

 ous parties of northern Indians, that generally haunt the way I came. He then 

 made some professions of friendship, concluding with giving me another string of 

 beads, as a token of it. He had scarce finished, when four of those who had exhibited 

 at the procession made their second appearance, painted in milk-white, their eagle- 

 tails in one hand, and small gourds with beads in them in the other, which they 

 rattled in time to the musick. Diiring this dance the peace-pipe was prepared." — 

 Timberlake, Memoirs, pi). .S6-39. 



Adair al.«o makes brief mention of the ceremony among the < Julf tribes (Hist. Am. 

 Indians, p. 260), but his account is too badly warped by theorizing to have much value. 



Adopt ft relative — This seems to point to a custom which has escaped the notice of 

 earlier writers on the eastern tribes, but which is well know'n in Africa and other 

 parts of the world, and is closely analogous to a still existing cei-emony among the 

 plains Indians by which two young men of the same tribe formally agree to become 

 brothers, and ratify the cumpai-t by a jiublic exchange of names and gifts. 



