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Show HOFFMAN] MIGRATION OF ANISHINA'BEG. 179 spots each, which radiate from the larger circle at No. 179 and that before mentioned at No. 116, symbolize the four bear nests and their respective approaches, which are supposed to be placed opposite the four doors of the fourth degree; and it is obligatory, therefore, for a candidate to enter these four doors on hands and knees when appearing for his initiation and before he finally waits to receive the concluding portion of the ceremony. The illustration presented in Fig. 5 is a reduced copy of a drawing made by Sikas'sigS to represent the migration of the Otter toward the west after he had received the rite of the Mide'- wiwin. No. 1 refers to the circle upon the large chart on PI. in A, No. 1, and signifies the earth's surface as before described. No. 2 in Fig. 5 is a line separating the history of the Mide' wiwin from that of the migration as follows: When the Otter had offered four prayers, as above mentioned, which fact is referred to by the spot No. 3, he disappeared beneath the surface of the water and went toward the west, whither the Ani'shina'beg followed him, and located at Ottawa Island ( No. 4). Here they erected the Mide'wig& n and lived for many years. Then the Otter again disappeared beneath the water, and in a short tirre reappeared at A'wiat'ang ( No. 5), when the Mide'wigan was again erected and the sacred rites conducted in accordance with the teachings of Mi'nabo'zho. Thus was an interrupted migration continued, the several resting places being given below in their proper order, at each of which the rites of the Mide'wiwin were conducted in all their purity. The next place to locate at was Mi'shenama'kinagung - Mackinaw 2/ 22 23 \ Z4 f25 \ z6 \ 27 \ zs I fw* FIG. 5.- Migration of Anishina'beg. |
