MALLBRY. ] : DIVINATION, 497 
the Great Spirit, as communicated by me, to each of you he has given to live to the 
full age of man: this long and straight line ais the image of your several lives. For 
you, Shaw-shaw-wa ne-ba-se, who have turned aside from the right path, and de- 
spised the admonitions you have received, this short and crooked line } represents 
your life. You are to attain only to half of the full age of man, This line, turning 
off on the other side, is that which shows what is determined in relation to the young 
wife of Ba-po-wash. As he said this, he showed us the marks he had made on the 
ground, as below. The long, straight middle line represented, as he said, the life 
of the Indians, Sha-gwaw-koo-sink, Wau-zhe-gaw-maish-koon, ete. The short, 
crooked one below showed the irregular course and short continuance of mine; and 
the abruptly terminating one on the other side showed the life of the favorite wife 
of Ba-po-wash. 
Fic. 702.—Ojibwa divination. 
Fig. 703 was copied from a piece of walrus ivory in the museum of 
the Alaska Commercial Company, of San Francisco, California, in 1882, 
by Dr. Hoffman, and the interpretation is as obtained from a native 
Alaskan. 
h PS i e d e b a 
Fig. 703.—Shaman exorcising demon. Alaska. 
a, b. The shaman’s summer habitations, trees growing in the vicinity. 
ce. The shaman, who is represented in the act of holding one of his 
“demons.” These are considered as under the control of the shaman, 
who employs them to drive others out of the bodies of sick men. d. 
The demon or aid. e. The same shaman exorcising the demons causing 
the sickness. f, g. Sick men, who have been under treatment, and 
from whose bodies the ‘evil beings” or sickness has been expelled. 
h. Two “evil spirits” which have left the bodies of f and g. 
Fig. 704 was copied by Dr. Hoffman from an ivory bow in the same 
museum. The interpretation was also obtained at the same time from 
the same Alaskan. 
The rod of the bow upon which the characters occur is here repre- 
sented in three sections, A, B, and C. A bears the beginning of the 
narrative, extending over only one-half of the length of the rod. The 
course of the inscription is then continued on the adjacent side of the 
rod at the middle, and reading in both directions (sections B and C), 
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