M. R. HARRINGTON — SACRED BUNDLES OF THE SAC AND FOX INDIANS. 237

bearing they have upon the image, but I give the list for what it is worth.
Bundle 2 / 8601 .
A curious bundle that seems to belong to this same class, although different in detail, was obtained from Jim Scott, a Fox Indian of the Tama band in Iowa, who said it had belonged to Mo we ja kwa, his wife’s grandmother, from whom it had descended to her mother. He said that the exact use and ritual have been forgotten, but that he knew it was supposed to be “medicine.” The entire contents are shown in PI. XXXIX.
The outer cover (A) is a comparatively new sack of bass- wood fibre, 71" x 12j". Within this, wrapped in a square of figured calico, and ensconced in a little calico sack, was the image (B), a terra cotta figure of a naked man, 5f" high, and showing signs of considerable age. The organ of generation is plainly shown, and the whole body is rubbed with yellow paint, upon which, in the neighborhood of the neck and chest, nearly obliterated spots of red can be distinguished. Upon the head is a bunch of white down feathers, about the neck a triple string of alternating white and blue beads and in the right ear a loop of similar beads at the lowest part of which is a large round white bead.
The owner claimed that it was made by the grandmother, Mo we ja kwa, but I think from its appearance that it has probably been made by some southwestern tribe, perhaps the Pima. How it came into the hands of the Fox is a mystery. I have since seen a similar image, only female, in the hands of a curio dealer, but he had no data as to its origin. In the bundle were the following articles:
An old brass thimble (C) containing a tiny packet, appar- ently the love medicine “Ka/ pi a;” a modem-appearing strip of woven bead work (D) f*' wide and 32" long, terminat- ing in a red woolen tassel; a little old sack of red ribbon trimmed with green (E), containing a few bits of herbs and roots; a small leather purse (F), empty; a tin can (G) contain-
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ing a finely divided brown herb mixture; a red cloth pack- age (H) enclosing a white one with a coarser mixture; two white cloth packages (I, J) of fine herb mixture, some calamus roots tied in a bit of smoke-stained rag (K) and a paper (L) containing medicine.
Bundle 2/8602.
Among the Foxes also was found a bundle containing a wooden fetish something like that in Bundle 2/6507, heretofore described. It is the figure of a man of unusual and striking appearance (PI. XL, A), due largely to the boldness with which the carving has been executed. It seems to be made of walnut, in one solid piece, and measures 13f" in height. The arms are at the sides, the head represented as shaved, except for the warrior’s roach or crest on the crown. Navel and genitals are roughly shown, and the back looks almost unfinished. The lines of the face and the cavity representing the left eye show signs of red paint, and a buckskin thong about the neck bears a packet containing herb medicine. About the waist is a loose girdle of heavy green cloth, beneath which is thrust a flint knife painted red, nearly 5" in length, a fire-blackened wooden whistle 7" long, bearing an encircling fringe of deer hair just above and partly covering the air-hole, and a 9" eagle(?) feather dyed red, the quill of which has been wrapped in beads by way of decoration.
The figure, together with the tail of a deer which serves it for a pillow, was wrapped in the little black flannel blanket shown in the picture, and the whole rolled in a strip of dark red fabric made by the whites.
But little information could be collected, concerning the specimen, except that it was used as a health protector, a helper in war, love and other projects, and also for bewitching enemies. The details of the ritual are forgotten, it is said, but it was customary to hold a feast for the image, every two years, at which ceremonies are performed similar to those
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