_Strawberries_, ceremonial drink of, 134; in Happy Hunting Ground, 58; Minsi ceremony in time of, 128 _Strawberry dance_ of Iroquois, 128, 197 _Streams and waters_, wampum string symbolizing, 141-142 _Strings of wampum_, symbolism of, 141-142 _Stripes_, purification by, 58 _Sumach sticks_, carried by Pa‛ʹtŭmawas, 127-128; in Minsi ceremony, 131 _Sun_ or _Gĭckokwiʹta_, as guardian spirit, 76, 78, 195; Brainerd on concept of, 22; concept of, 27-28; duties of, 193; Peyote road toward, 187, 190; salutation of, 190; souls in, 59; turning toward west, 132; wampum string symbolizing, 141-142 _Supernatural helpers_ or guardian spirits, 61-63. See _Guardian spirit_ _Supreme Being_, see _Great Spirit_ _Survival_ of the soul, see _Immortality_ _Susquehanna river_, rites of Annual ceremony on, 152; rites of Mask Being on, 41-42 _Sweathouse_, described by Zeisberger, 125-126; of MuxhatoLʹzing, 123-124 _Sweating-oven_, see _Sweathouse_ _Sweeping_, ceremonial, of Big House, 87-88, 107, 120, 133, 197; around fires, 121 _Taboos_ prescribed to be piʹlsŭⁿ, 62-63 _Taleʹgunŭk_ or singers at Annual ceremony, 85. See _Singers_ _Taxoʹxi cowŭniʹgŭn_ or tortoise-shell rattle, 94. See _Rattles_ _Tayenoʹxwan_, native name of Chief James Wolf, 14. See _Wolf, Chief James_ _Tefft, E. T._, ethnological collection of, 15; Naniʹtis in, 168-169; Minsi mask in, 38 _Temple_, see _Big House_ _Thames river_, Ontario, locating a body in, 55 _Thanksgiving_, at Minsi ceremony, 134; carved heads symbolic of, 140; Minsi ceremonies of, 115, 139-145, 197; to Great Spirit at ceremonies, 18, 120, 138, 145, 190, 196; to manĭʹtowŭk, 89-90; to Mĭsiʹngʷ‛, 152-156; to Mother Corn, 43 _Thirteen_ ceremonial wampum strings, 141-142 _Three_, bands of thunders, 30; days, women interdicted during, 120; phratries, rituals of, 119-120; tribes of Lenape, 13 _Thunder and rain_, wampum string symbolizing, 141-142 _Thunder Beings_ or _Pethakoweʹyuk_, as guardian spirits, 74-75, 195; attributes of, 29-31, 193; thanksgiving to, 89 _Thunders-in-league-with_ or _PilesʹwaL pewaʹlatcil_, 76 _Timothy, Chief Nellis F._, account of Minsi Annual ceremony by, 127-138; acknowledgment to, 14; on Mask society, 159 _Tipi_, use of, in Peyote rite, 186, 188 _Tobacco_, ceremonial begging of, 160; offered: on behalf of hunters, 98-99; to bear, 172; to fire, 126; to Four Directions, 26; to impersonator of Mask Being, 153, 156; to Mask, 34, 35, 151, 157; to otter, 177; to Thunder Beings, 29; to Tornado, 47; smoked at Annual ceremony, 95-96 _Tomapemihiʹlat_, native name of Chief Nellis F. Timothy, 14. See _Timothy_, _Chief Nellis F._ _Tomb_ of Christ at Peyote rite, 186-187 _Tooth_ of Great Bear, medicine made from, 49