Material culture of the Menomini / by Alanson Skinner.

  • Alanson Skinner
Date:
1921
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Credit: Material culture of the Menomini / by Alanson Skinner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    about conducting the funeral services of the cult for the dead, he was deposited without ceremony in an unhallowed grave adjoining the local Christian cemetery, where a beer bottle marked the spot when last seen by the writer in 1920. His bark lodge, robbed mysteriously of his sacred bundles and medicines, has fallen to pieces. Another good house of this type, in the same region, wras owned by the father of Kime'wun Oke'mas, whose portrait will be found in the section devoted to Menomini dress (pi. xvi). This lodge was also aban¬ doned on the death of its owner, but he being a member of the Mitd'win, as well as of the Wa'bano and the Jensako, was properly cared for after his demise. In the shelter of this building, the writer, guided by the dead man’s son, one of the few Menomini converts to the “Peyote religion,” found the war-bundle and the Jensako outfit of the former owner, and purchased them for this Museum. Out¬ side, close to the wall, stood a wooden statue, nearly lifesize, of the war god Waf- •
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