The Assiniboine (Volume 4, Nos. 1-2)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Stoney Texts . Assiniboine Texts ILLUSTRATIONS. Plates. I. Woman Wringing a Skin. II. Dog Travois Assiniboine Couple. III. Fool-Dancers Text Figures. Page 1. Horn Spoon ............ 13 2. Assiniboine Warrior (After Maximilian) 16 3. Cup-and-ball Game 19 4. Armlet 20 5. Moccasin Decoration 21 6. Moccasin Decoration .......... 22 7. Parfleche Decoration 23 8. Decoration of a Stoney Tambourine 24 9. Naval Amulet. Bag . 25 10. Bag 2 11. Designs on a Drum 27 12. Saddle Ornament 28 13. Assiniboine Warrior (After Maximilian) 29 14. Bag for War-Medicine 32 15. Fool-Dance Mask 65 16. Fool-Dance Mask, Front 66 17. Fool-Dance Mask, Back 66 INTRODUCTION. In the summer of 1907 I spent about seven weeks among the Stoney Assiniboine of Morley, Alberta, as part of a Museum expedition to the Northern Plains. Though very much of the ancient life had become completely effaced under the influence of missionary teaching, I was able to collect a reasonably large body of mythological material. On my return from a trip to the Chipewyan in the following year, it was deemed advisable to spend the month of August among the Assiniboine at Ft. Belknap, Montana, in order to enlarge the inadequate conception of Assiniboine ethnology obtained from their Canadian kinsmen. Beyond ascertaining the essential similarity of the folk-lore of the two sections, relatively little attention was given to mythology in 1908, the main object being to secure notes on social and ceremonial organization. To these is prefixed a necessarily brief account of the history and material culture of the tribe, largely reconstructed from the records of older writers. While a longer stay would have helped to fill up many lacunae, especially in the treatment of games, of the sundance and the horse-dance, it ...