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Portrait of James Owen Dorsey James Owen Dorsey Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages

NOTES.
583, 1. shuákia does not mean to "call on somebody" generally, but only "to call on the conjurer or medicine man".
583, 2. wán stands for wánam nī'l: the fur or skin of a red or silver fox; kaníta pî'sh stands for kanítana látchash m'nálam: "outside of his lodge or cabin". The meaning of the sentence is: they raise their voices to call him out. Conjurers are in the habit of fastening a fox-skin outside of their lodges, as a business sign, and to let it dangle from a rod stuck out in an oblique direction.
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Portrait of James Owen Dorsey James Owen Dorsey Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages

For developing steam the natives collect only such stones for heating as are neither too large nor too small; a medium size seeming most appropriate for concentrating the largest amount of heat. The old sweat-lodges are surrounded with large accumulations of stones which, to judge from their blackened exterior, have served the purpose of generating steam
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