A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544Dorsey, James Owen
Religion
A Study of Siouan Cults: Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544
Dorsey, James Owen
Siouan Indians -- Religion
-----------+-----------+-----------------+----------------------+
| | Ojibwa. | Navajo. |
Quarter, | Cherokee. +--------+--------+------------+---------+
etc. | [a] | [b] | [c] | [d] | [e] |
-----------+-----------+--------+--------+------------+---------+
| | | | | |
East | Red, 1. | White. | Red. | White, 1. | Yellow. |
South | White, 4. | Green. | Green. | Blue, 2. | Red. |
| | | | | |
West | Black, 8. | Red. | White. | Yellow, 3. | Blue. |
North | Blue, 2. | Black. | Black. | Black, 4. | White. |
Upperworld | ... | ... | ... | Blue. | ... |
| | | | | |
Lowerworld | ... | ... | ... | White and | ... |
| | | | black in | |
| | | | spots. | |
Sunlight | ... | ... | ... | Red. | ... |
-----------+-----------+--------+--------+------------+---------+
_a_ Mooney, in Jour. Am. Folklore, Vol. III, No. 8, Jan.-Mar.,
1890, pp. 49, 50.
_b_ Hoffman, in Am. Anthropologist, July, 1889, pp. 217, 218; from
Sicosige, a second-degree Mide of White Earth, Minn.
_c_ Hoffman, in ibid., p. 218; from Ojibwa, a fourth-degree Mide,
from another locality.
_d_ Matthews, in 5th An. Rept. Bur. Eth., p. 449.
_e_ Mallery, from Thos. V. Keam’s catalogue of relics of the
ancient buildings of the southwest table-lands--quoted in Trans.
Anthrop. Soc. of Washington, Vol. III, 141, 1885.
-----------+--------------------+------------+---------
| Apache. | |
Quarter, |---------+----------+ Zuñi. | Aztec.
etc. | [f] | [g] | [h] | [i]
-----------+---------+----------+------------+---------
| | | |
East | Black. | Yellow. | White, 4. | Yellow.
South | White. | Green | Red, 3. | White.
| | or Blue. | |
West | Yellow. | Black. | Blue, 2. | Blue.
North | Blue. | White. | Yellow, 1. | Red.
Upperworld | ... | ... | All |
| | | colors, 5. |
Lowerworld | ... | ... | Black, 6. |
Sunlight | ... | ... | ... |
-----------+---------+----------+------------+---------
_f_ Gatschet, on Chiricahua Apache sun circle, in Trans. Anthrop.
Soc. of Washington, Vol. III, 147, 1885.
_g_ Capt. J. G. Bourke, in a letter to the author, Dec. 4, 1890.
In Nov., 1885, he obtained from a San Carlos (Pinal) Apache green
as the color for the north.
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