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Show 190 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NOV'TH AMERICAN INDIANS. The two eyes are abont 6 inches in diameter and 4 inches apart and the nose about 9 inches long. It is said to have been made by some man a long time ago, who felt very badly, and went and sat on the rock, and with another stone hammered oat the FIG. 108.- Thunder- bird. Hold*. eyes and nose. For a long time they believed that if the rock was shaken it would cause rain, probably because the thunder bird was angry. Graphic representations of Atotarko and of the Great Heads are FIG. 109.- Thunder- bird. Twana. shown in Mrs. Erminnie A. Smith's Myths of the Iroquois, in the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Mythic Personages are also presented in aboriginal drawing by Mr. Charles G. Leland in his work, the Algonquin Legends of New England, etc. Boston, 1884. SHAMANISM. The term Shamanism is a corrupted form of the Sanscrit word for ascetic. Its original application was to the religion of certain tribes of northern Asia, but in general it expresses the worship of spirits with magic arts and fetich- practices. The Shaman or priest pretends to control by incantations and ceremonies the evil spirits to whom death, sickness, and other misfortunes are ascribed. This form or stage of religion |
