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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1929
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
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Type : publication en série imprimée
Langue : anglais
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Description : 1929
Description : 1929 (N47)-1930.
Description : Note : Index.
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I took 35 prayer sticks and classified tbem according to design, paintmgs, etc. I found about 17 different types. There were three or four sticks in each of a few types, but only one in many others. The classification was based upon the following factors: Kind of wood, shape of the "head" (i. e., the peeled) end, whether pointed, beveled, or eut square across, the number and position of the grooves, the position of feathers, color-red, yellow, or green. There were 10 sticks, each of which was different in its combination of the above elements from any other stick. I tried to have these sticks classified by informants, but the results were very unsatisfactory; not
only did the informants disagree, but the same informant betrayed deplorable discrepancies in repeated classifications (at intervals of time). There are, 1 believe, three factors which determine the precise design of a prayer stick: (s) The person or group making it–i. e., whether it be the cacique or the war chief, or dancers from Haimatats or Dautkorits estufas; (b) the occasion-e. g., a solstice, at natyati, etc.; (c) the spirit to whom the stick is oNered–latik", Masewi or the k'atsina. Each one of these three groups of factors contains a great many elements. There are. many groups in the village, many supernaturals, and a great variety of occasions for honoring them. The combinations and permutations made possible by ail of these factors (each represented by a stylistic device) must be very numerous indeed. If 17 types are found in 35 sticks, how many would be found in
FiGDBE 4-ceremomai objects 300 sticks? The dimculty encountered in having informants classify prayer sticks
is due largely, 1 believe, to thé high esoteric character of these items of paraphemalia; one group probably does not know anything about thé stick used by another. 7 The most one could expect from a single person would be a complete list of sticks that he himself would use on ail occasions and for all spirits.
Prayer sticks, either in the shape of a cross or a single stick with the cross painted on the head end, are offered to the Catholic God. They are painted with eyes and mouth, and feathers are tied to them as to other prayer sticks. Years ago, it is said, God (called Yo'cthi, from Spanish Dios?) said to latik", the mother of the Indians, "If