Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 95
INDIAN NOTES care and guardianship of the buffalo spirit and for other special favors. In such cases the skull was placed with a southern aspect upon the brow of a hill so to express the thought of watch and ward through the whole day, from the rising of the sun to its setting. The petitioner would… … Fig. ^5. — Buffalo-skull and pipe from the Ankara. (14/5014, 5105) devotion. The rags wrapped round the horns of the present specimen are remnants of offerings which have thus been made during the years it was in use by Soldier. When the buffalo-skull was placed on the roof of a dwelling it was set…
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