North American Indians of the plains / by Clark Wissler.

  • Clark Wissler
Date:
1912
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Credit: North American Indians of the plains / by Clark Wissler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Arapaho series is exhibited in the Museum and from the Gros Ventre, a related tribe, is shown the only known specimen of the peculiar shirt worn by a highest degree dog society member. Other regalia is exhibited for the Blackfoot, Crow, and Hidatsa. Among the Blackfoot, Arapaho, Hidatsa, Mandan, and Gros Ventre, we find one or more women’s societies Fig. 32. Headdress of Buffalo Skins. Arapaho Women’s Society. not in any way performing police functions, but still regarded as somehow correlated with the series for men. Among the Blackfoot and Arapaho, the one women’s society is based upon mythical conceptions of the buffalo as is illustrated by their regalia (Fig. 32). Among the Mandan, where there were several women’s societies, we may note a buffalo organization whose ceremonies were believed to charm the buffalo near