510 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
which is described above. The ground plan indicated in this figure 
seems to be divided by partitions, which, together with the human 
figures and designs, probably refer to the rites of initiation and celebra- 
tion performed in them. Some of the Miemacs examined had a vague 
recollection of these ceremonies, which, at the time of the European dis- 
Fic. 716.—On-siw-kie. 
covery of the northeastern part of North America, probably were as 
widely prevalent, as they continued to be much later, among the 
regions farther in the interior, also occupied by the Algonquian tribes. 
ane Fig. 718, from the same locality, is a 
cee ie aS A | drawing of the ground plan of another 
description of ceremonial wigwam or lodge 
which is remarkably similar to that now 
called by the Ojibwa ‘‘the jessikan.” Its 
distinguishing feature is the branch of a 
tree erected on the outside, and it is the 
wigwam of a juggler or wizard, and not the 
lodge belonging to the regular order of the 
Mide’, Such wigwams of jugglers, who 
performed wonderful feats similar to those 
of modern spiritualistic exhibitions, are - 
frequently mentioned by the early French 
and English writers, who gave accounts 
F1G.717.—Medicine lodge. Miemac. of the provinces of New France and New 
England. The figure now presented is not suggestive without com- 
parison, and would not have been selected for the foregoing descrip- 
