 | Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - 1887 - 606 pages
...used characteristic of the animal whose name the mystery bears. Each festival of the same society mny differ in minor points, as an assembly only takes...The maturity of the sexes is a period of serious and religions experiences which are preparatory by their character for the entrance of the youth or maiden... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology - 1894 - 764 pages
...* * * Membership in these societies is not confined to any particular gens, or grouping of gentes, but depends upon supernatural indications over which...fasting determines to which society he must belong.' § 299. Those having visions or revelations from ghosts are called Wanagi ihanblapi kiij. It is such... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1908 - 254 pages
...is not, as among the Kwakiutl, confined to the clan. In the Omaha societies, for example, membership "depends upon supernatural indications over which...fasting determines to which society he must belong." l Entrance to the society so designated does not, however, follow immediately upon the vision; the... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1908 - 254 pages
...is not, as among the Kwakiutl, confined to the clan. In the Omaha societies, for example, membership "depends upon supernatural indications over which...fasting determines to which society he must belong." ' Entrance to the society so designated does not, however, follow immediately upon the vision; the... | |
 | Frances Densmore - 1918 - 736 pages
...there are societies, religious in character, which are distinguished by the name of some animal. . . . Membership in these societies is not confined to any...fasting determines to which society he must belong.* Among the Teton Sioux there are some societies which belong unmistakably to one of these groups and... | |
 | Frances Densmore - 1918 - 740 pages
...there are societies, religious in character, which are distinguished by the name of some animal. . . . Membership in these societies is not confined to any...religious fasting determines to which society he must belong.2 Among the Teton Sioux there are some societies which belong unmistakably to one of these groups... | |
 | Frances Densmore - 1918 - 742 pages
...are societies, religious in character, • which are distinguished by the name of some animal. . . . Membership in these societies is not confined to any...religious fasting determines to which society he must belong.3 Among the Teton Sioux there are some societies which belong unmistakably to one of these groups... | |
 | Frances Densmore - 1918 - 748 pages
...are societies, religious in character, which are distinguished Ъу the name of some animal. ... . Membership in these societies is not confined to any...vision during his religious fasting determines to which aociety he must belong.2 Among the Tetón Sioux there are some societies which belong unmistakably... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department - 1919 - 316 pages
...or Festival [of, the] Ogallala Sioux," Rcports of the Peabody Mus'ciim, vol. 3, pp. 276-288, 1887. Membership in these societies is not confined to any particular gens or grouping of gentes, but depends upon supernatural indications over which the individual has no control. The animal... | |
 | Alfred Louis Kroeber, Thomas Talbot Waterman - 1924 - 606 pages
...volume 3, pages 276-288, 1S87. The Dakota are the group of Plains Indian tribes often called Sioux. Membership in these societies is not confined to any particular gens or grouping of gentes, but depends upon supernatural indications over which the individual has no control. The animal... | |
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Membership in these societies is not confined to any particular gens, or grouping of gens, but depends upon supernatural indications over which the individual has no control. The animal which appears to a man in a vision during his religious fasting determines... 