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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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e society people, need the fur of the buffalo for their ceremonies.They used to use bear skin to cover their arms when they had theircuring ceremonies in the winter, but for a long time they have notbeen able to kill any bears around here on account of the white people,and so they use buffalo skin instead. So about ten years ago the katcina chief and the other headmenmet to talk about it. They thought they would like to have a buffalodance come here. They thought that if the buffalo came here all thefur-bearing aninials like the bear would come near to Itiwana, so thatthe society people could use their fur in their ceremonies. We hadheard that there was a Sioux man living at Gallup, so one man wentup to Gallup to get this man to give him their songs for the buffalo.The man went there and got the songs and made Zuiii words for it.Then the Sioux man drew a picture of how the buffalo looked in thedance, and he brought it back here and they made this dance. They < DZZ< q:O o _J o zI
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liJo z< Q X 3O a. DO a: C3Ui o z< Q XUJ hz BVNZEL) SUPPLEMENTARY AND EXTRA DANCES 1075 had the dance in the winter. One buffalo comes, and one warriorcomes and chases him and kills him, and the others dance. Whenthey kill the buffalo in the dance, whoever comes to him first willtake him to his society roon) and all the members of his society willsprinkle the buffalo with water that they may have good luck. SiwoLO (Buffalo)(Plate 50, 6) Costume.—The mask is a regular chin mask like Tcakwena wearswith the buffalo head put on over it. He has red ears and black andwhite horns. Over his head and shoulders he wears a buffalo hide.His arms are painted red. His kilt is of brown buckskin with a rattle-snake painted on it. The bottom of the kilt is fringed with nails andother pieces of metal that jangle as he dances. Fur leggings withmore metal ornaments on the upper edges. Red moccasins trimmedwith blue. Fox skin. In his right hand a rattle, in the left a light-ning stick and a bunch o

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