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BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 

 Rattles 



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Bug Woman 

 Dancer 



Iron Eyes 



Wooden spooi 



Poor Wolf 



Rattles Medlc'me 

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Feather-on-Hecd 

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Plenty Yellow 



Blossom 

 Blossom 

 Old Blossom 

 Yellow Woman 



bman-in -Water 

 Dog Bear 

 Bear Necklace 

 Wolf Eyes 

 Hairy Coat 

 Does Good 

 Crows Breast 

 -Two Shields 

 Raven Arm 

 Bobtail Bull 

 Coyote Head 



A Buffalo Skull 

 B Buffalo Hide 



Medicine Bundle 



Goods 



Lodge Post 



Spectators 



Figure 8. — Floor plan of the Imitating Buffalo ceremony. (Drawn by Bears Arm and 

 Mrs. White Duck (Rattles Medicine).) 



Each member of the Black Mouths and Holy Women societies took a branch 

 of creeping cedar to carry or to wear in the belt. Bug Woman wore a buffalo 

 robe with the hair -side out and fastened with a waistband. She received a 

 small bag of Dog Medicine to which were fastened hawk or owl claws. There 

 were sage leaves in the bag and a song belonged to the bundle to be used in curing 

 bites of mad dogs and rattlesnakes, or injuries from buffaloes. Dogs were repre- 

 sented because the people used dogs in bringing the meat back to camp; rattle- 

 snakes, because the hunters were sometimes bitten while chasing buffaloes; and 

 injuries from buffaloes because they frequently attacked the hunters or their 

 horses. 



Rattles Medicine wore a stufifed owl and branch of evergreen fastened to her 

 belt. This was put there by the head war chief, Crows Breast, who prayed that 

 she be given a long life and good luck. For the dances, Bug Woman led the 

 procession followed by File, the dancer, and the others succeeded them in no 

 set order. The Holy Women all carried sacks (made of the buflfalo paunch) of 

 pemmican to symbolize the scaflFolds which they loaded with meat when Blood 



