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Show 5 6 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN8. Some who act like a black bear paint with charcoal alone. Some paint in the wind style, some in the lightning style, and others in the panther or puma style. * Sec also pages 85 and 162. When aThlinkit arms himself for war he paints his face and powders his hair a brilliant red. He then ornaments his head with white eagle-feathers, a token of stern vindictive determination. See Bancroft, Native Races, etc., I, page 105. Blue signifes peace among the Indians of the Pueblo of Tesuque. See Schoolcraft, III, 306. ' In several addresses before the Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C, and papers yet unpublished, in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, by Mr. James Stevenson, Dr. Washington Matthews, U. S. Army, and Mr. Thomas V. Keam, the tribes below are mentioned as using in their ceremonial dances the respective colors designated to represent the four cardinal points of the compass, viz.: N. S. E. W. Stevenson- Zuni Yellow. Red. White. Black. Matthews- Navajo Black. Blue. White. Yellow. Keam- Moki White. Red. Yellow. Blue. Gapt. John O. Bourke, U. S. Army, in the Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, etc., New York, 1884, p. 120, says that the Moki employ the following colors: yellow in prayers for pumpkins, green for corn, and red for peaches. Black and white bands are typical of rain, while red and blue bands are typical of lightning. The Central Galifornians ( north of San Francisco Bay) formerly wore the down of Asclepias ( f) ( white) as an emblem of royalty. See Bancroft, Native Races, I, 387, 388, quoting Drake's World Encomp. pp. 124- 126. The natives of Guatemala wore red feathers in their hats, the nobles only wearing green ones. Ibid, p. 691. See with reference to the Haidas, Mr. J. O. Swan's account, page 66, infra. The following extract relative to the color red among the New Zea-lauders is from Taylor's Te Ika a Maui, etc., pp. 209- 210. Closely connected with religion, was the feeling they entertained for the Kara, or Red Paint, which was the sacred color; their idolH, Patakat sacred, stages for the dead, and for offerings or sacrifices, Urupa graves, chief's houses, and war canoes, were all thns painted. The way of rendering anything tapu was by making it red. When a person died, his house was thus colored; when the tapn was laid on anything, the chief erected a post and painted it with the kura; wherever a corpse rested, some memorial was set up, oftentimes the nearest stone, rock, or tree served as a monument; but whatever object was selected, it was sure to be made red. If the corpse were conveyed by water, wherever they landed a similar token was left; and when it reached its deB-tination, the oanoe was dragged on shore, thus distinguished, and abandoned. When |
