_Health_, Bear cult preserving, 172; fetishes preserving, 45-46; Otter cult preserving, 177-179; god of, 168; Mask restoring, 34, 36-37, 156-157, 159, 161; Naniʹtis guardian of, 163-164, 166-171; prayer for, 134; supernatural control of, 194. See _Sickness_ _Heaven_, concept of, 20-21, 52-59; duration of journey to, 88; Milky Way to, 58; Peyote road to, 187; sweeping way to, 88, 107; visited by preachers, 57; visited during visions, 189-191. See _Happy Hunting Ground_ _Heavens_, keepers of, 31; return of Pa‛ʹtŭmawas to, 127-128. See _Happy Hunting Ground_, _Twelfth heaven_ _Heckewelder, John_, on dreams or visions, 78-80; on Great Spirit, 21; on Thunder Beings, 30; on Unala‛ʹtko, 124 _Hell_, extraneous concept of, 57 _Hemlock-boughs_, ceremonial burning of, 133, 144-145 _Herb_, passed at Peyote rite, 188-189; herbs: prayers in gathering, 26, 51; thanks to, 134 _Heye Museum_, see _Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation_ _Hill_, home of Mask Being, 158 _Hog_, feast of, at Otter ceremony, 176-179; offering of, 173-175 _Hoⁿ-hoⁿ-hoⁿ_ or cry of Mask Being, 149, 153 _Holm, Thomas Campanius_, on Evil Spirit, 25; on Great Spirit, 21 _Hominy_, at Buffalo dance, 182; at Mĭsiʹngʷ‛ dance, 153-154; offered to Doll Being, 163-164, 166; offered to Mask Being, 150; preparation of, for Annual ceremony, 85, 96-97 _Ho-o-o_, a prayer-cry, at Annual ceremony, 95, 97, 99-100, 103-104, 106-108, 136-138; at Bear ceremony, 175; origin of, 112-113 _Horses_, Mask Being guardian of, 35, 157; tobacco offered to recover, 35 _Hu-hu-hu_, cry at Bear ceremony, 174-175 _Hu-hu-hu-hu_, cry at Otter ceremony, 181 _Human heads_ carved on drumsticks, 101, 139-140, 150, 197 _Human skeleton dance_, see _Skeleton dance_ _Hunt_ for Naniʹtis, 171 _Hunter_ at Doll dance, 164 _Hunters_, Buffalo dance of, 182-183; of Annual ceremony, 97-101, 108, 110, 117; of Minsi ceremony, 132, 137; of MuxhatoLʹzing, 123 _Hunting_, help of impersonator of Mask Being in, 158; in Happy Hunting Ground, 56; prayer before, 134, 137; supernatural control of, 62, 194; tobacco offered before, 35, 157 _Hweisk-queem_, Minsi term for corn, 144. See _Corn_ _Idol_ or _Mĕsinkʹ_, 43. See _Mask_, _Mask Being_, _Mĭsiʹngʷ‛_ _Illegitimacy_ disregarded in family rites, 116 _Images_ possessing life, 45-47. See _Doll Being_, _Fetishes_ _Immortality_, belief in, 20-21, 52-60, 195-196 _Impersonator_, of Mask Being, 34-36, 41-42, 45, 56, 98-99, 138, 150, 152-159; of Otter, 177-182 _Indian corn_, see _Corn_ _Indian dictionary_, Zeisberger, author, 43 _Indians_, comments of, on Annual ceremony, 111-115; United States Census report on, cited, 80 _Initiation_ of boys, 63-64; Heckewelder on, 78-80. See _Boys_, _Visions_