O-Kee-Pa : a Religious Ceremony; And Other Customs of the Mandans
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Their bodies were naked, and painted with yellow clay. These characters, whom they called grizzly bears, were continually growling and threatening to devour everything before them, and [ith Simonau 8: Toove » 0-KEE-PA, OF THE MANDANS. 19 interfering with the forms of the ceremony. To appease them and keep them quiet, the women were continually bringing and placing before them dishes of meat, which were as often snatched away and carried to the prairies by two men called bald eagles, whose bodie...s and limbs were painted black, whilst their heads and feet and hands were whitened with clay. These were again chased upon the prairies by a numerous group of small boys, whose bodies and limbs were painted yellow, and their heads white, wearing tails of white deer's hair, and whom they called antelopes. Besides these there were two men representing sivans, their bodies naked and painted white, and their noses and feet were painted black. There were two men called rattlesnakes, their bodies naked and curiously painted, resembling that reptile ; each holding a rattle in one hand and a bunch of wild sage in the other.
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