Volume 2

Contributions to Fox ethnology / Truman Michelson.

  • Truman Michelson
Date:
1927-30
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Credit: Contributions to Fox ethnology / Truman Michelson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [BULL. 95 Athapascans, pp. 204, 206, 207 of the Archaeological Rept. Ontario for 1905; for the Prairie Potawatomi, B. P. M. Milwaukee 6, p. 21. Without doubt these could be easily multiplied. It seems to me that this is proof that Alexander’s contention that American Indians made no discrimination between sin, vice, etc. [Enc. Rel. and Ethics, article Sin (American)] is wrong. As stated above, the connection between ethics and religion among the Foxes is slim. This is especially true of formal worship (mAmatomoni). Nevertheless, even in this last it does occur. For I have been informed that in some of the winter religious festivals often the head man will say, “So-and-so has done wrong and offers this dog.” This, of course, recalls confession as an atonement among the Eskimo and northern Athapascan. E- where they have a shoulder where they have a shoulder N b WHERE they have a BACK WHERE THEY HAVE A BACK s WHERE THEY HAVE AN UPPER-LE6 WHERE THET HAVE AN UPPER-LEO TdrKANS K?rCKOS W- Figure 3.—Some details of the eating contest Plates 1-3 are based on photographs kindly furnished by Mr. W. C. Orchard, of the Museum of the American Indian. Thanks are ex¬ tended to the said institution for the privilege of being permitted to here reproduce some of the Fox woven bags and one Otoe bag therein deposited showing the thunderbird designs. Figures 2 and 3 are based on drawings made by the author of the first Indian text. From Figure 2 (p. 57) it might be inferred that the structure in which the ceremony described in the present paper is conducted differs from the “bark houses” in which other gens festivals take place. Such, however, is not the case. The author has merely indicated the upright mattings which are arranged in an ellipse at the east end of the summer house.
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