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 — John Shaqi
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
Takuśkaŋśkaŋ, the Moving deity 445
Tunkan or Inyan, the Stone god or Lingam 447
Iŋyaŋ śa 448
Mato tipi 448
The sun and moon 449
Nature of concepts 449
The sun dance 450
A Dakota’s account of the sun dance 450
Object of the sun dance 451
Rules observed by households 451
The “u-ma-ne” 451
Rules observed by the devotee 452
Tribes invited to the sun dance 452
Discipline maintained 452
Camping circle formed 453
Men selected to seek the mystery tree 453
Tent of preparation 454
Expedition to the mystery tree 455
Felling the tree 456
Tree taken to camp 457
Raising the sun pole 457
Building of dancing lodge 458
The Uuȼita 458
Decoration of candidates or devotees 458
Offerings of candidates 459
Ceremonies at the dancing lodge 460
The dance 460
Candidates scarified 460
Pieces of flesh offered 462
Torture of owner of horse 462
End of the dance 462
Intrusive dances 463
Captain Bourke on the sun dance 464
Berdaches 467
Astronomical lore 467
Day and night 467
The dawn 468
Weather spirit 468
Heyoka 468
The concepts of Heyoka 468
Heyoka feast 469
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