“‘I have in my possession two family gods. One is called _Pabookowaih_—the god that crushes or breaks down diseases. The other is a goddess named _Nahneetis_, the guardian of health. This goddess was delivered up to me by Eunice Hank, a Muncey Indian woman, who with her friends used to worship it in their sacred dances, making a feast to it every year, when a fat doe was sacrificed as an offering, and many presents were given by the friends assembled. She told me she was now restored to worship the Christian’s God, and therefore had no further use for it.’ “There can be no doubt in this case concerning the identity of this specimen with the one illustrated in the book quoted. It will be noticed however by those who are familiar with Peter Jones’ illustration that Nahneetis, like many humans, has lost her hair in her old age. An interesting feature of the specimen is the primitive skirt, which is made apparently by belting a blanket-like bit of cloth, bound at the edges, around Nahneetis’ waist. A vestige of this method of making a skirt survives, I think, in the form of the beaded strip running up one of the vertical seams of the more modern Indian skirt, among both the Delawares and the Iroquois.” The writer afterward found such skirts still in use among the Lenape in Oklahoma (pl. I, _b_). _An Early Account of Naniʹtĭs._—Another early account of the Naniʹtĭs among the Minsi may be found in the _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, among the documents relating to the Stockbridge Mission, written by the Rev. Cutting Marsh.[56] It reads as follows: “Nov. 6th [1839]. A Munsee Indian who came to this place over a year previous from Canada called upon me with an interpreter in order to give up a family idol. This man whose name is Big-Deer is upwards of 50 years of age, and since removing to this place, thro’ the influence of this family above mentioned has attended meetings constantly and gives some evidence of a change of heart.