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of this class bore reference to some herb or form of treatment, each of 
which was represented objectively or pictorially and produced simulta- 
neously with the chanting of the appropriate song by the shaman. The 
remedy or treatment to be adopted was decided upon by the degree of 
pleasure or relief afforded to the patient by the respective songs. 
Fig. 698. Cat-Owner was killed with a spider-web thrown at him by 
a Dakota. Cloud-Shield’s Winter Count, 182425. 
The spider-web is shown reaching to the heart of 
the victim from the hand of the man who threw it 
and two spiral wakan lines are also Shown. Blood 
issuing from his nose, colored red in the original, 
indicates that he bled to death. It is a common 
belief among Indians that certain ‘medicine men” 
possess the power of taking life by shooting nee- 
dles, straws, spider-webs, bullets, and other objects, however distant 
the person may be against whom they are directed. 
It may be noted that the union line connecting the two figures at the 
base signifies that they belong to the same tribe which the hair on the 
figure of the left shows to be Dakota. The victim is not scalped, but 
has no hair or other designation, being shown only in outline. 
_ Fig. 699. Cannaksa-Yuha, Has-a-war-club; from the Oglala Roster. 
This man, has his father’s name “ war-club,” and is 
therefore set by the ghosts in his stead as a warrior. 
He is supposed to be invulnerable to any mortal weapon, 
and the children and even women fear him as they 
would a ghost. He holds the war club before his face, 
as it partakes of the nature of insignia. In the original ; 
the whole of the man’s face is painted red. This is to 69; ,fleld# shost 
show that he has a wakicagapi-ecokicoupe, which means that he has 
put up a ghost tent, concerning which there are many and complicated 
ceremonies and details narrated by Rev. J. Owen Dorsey in the Ameri- 
can Anthropologist, 11, 145 et seq. 
John Tanner (g) gives an account of sorcery among the Ojibwa, with 
iliustrations copied as Fig. 700, being nearly identical with those recently 
obtained by Dr. Hoffman, and published in the Seventh ue Rep., 
Bureau of Ethnology, as Figs. 20 and 21. 
Fic. 698.—Magice killing. 
Fic. 700.—Muzzin-ne-neen. -Ojibwa. 
It was thought necessary to have recourse to a medicine hunt. Nah-gitch-e- 
gum-me [a ‘‘medicine” maker] sent to me and O-ge-mah-we-ninne, the best two 
hunters of the band, each a little leather sack of medicine, consisting of certain 
roots pounded fine and mixed with red paint, to be applied to the little images or 
figures of the animals we wish to kill. Precisely the same method is practiced in 
this kind of hunting, at least as far as the use of medicine is concerned, as in those 
