M. R. HARRINGTON — SACRED BUNDLES OF THE SAC AND FOX INDIANS. 247

Two cloth packages containing bits of dried entrails or umbilical cords.
Piece of dried membrane wrapped in two layers of buck- skin.
Package of bladder containing scales of mica-like sub- stance and red paint.
Package of skin, containing dark red paint and herbs.
Package of skin, containing red paint.
Package herbs.
Five packages herb mixture.
Two packages roots.
Four bits of root.
Three metal jinglers, with red deer-hair tassels.
Red cloth sack containing four white and one purple wampum beads, some roots and a piece of fungus tinder or punk.
Small woven sack, 3f" x 3", made mainly of ravelings, and containing a piece of leather, some fine black roots, some loose, some in a package, a few larger light-colored round roots and a package root mixture.
Cloth package, containing a paper package enclosing a piece of root and an herb mixture; another with a scale resem- bling mica wrapped in red-dyed down ; another, red paint and herb medicine, these last two wrapped in an old bit of paper upon which is written “C Cumdsy;” and another paper pack- age of red paint mixed with ground herbs.
Cloth package, containing a number of shafts from the feathers of small birds and several bits of root, all imbedded in fine ground herbs containing sparkling mica-like particles; also a skin package enclosing a bit of bark, a paper package of roots and another of herbs. This seems to be a “witching” preparation, the feather shafts being the mystic arrows shot by magic into the body of the person or animal selected as a victim.
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Medicine Against Witchcraft.
Bundle 2/8599.
From the same Fox woman who sold us the two preced- ing bundles, a third was obtained, called No tha tci gun, which was used mainly to counteract the magic of rival hunt- ing parties, but which could also be used to combat witchcraft of any kind. This bundle, she said, would offset the use of such a bundle as the last one in the hands of another party, and dispel the “hoodoo.” But when it came to details Pi a - mic kwi could not (or would not) give any information.
A rather new woven sack of yam, 6f" x 4|", bearing a panther figure, contained the outfit.
Contents. — Woven sack, 3" x 5§", in yellow and dark brown, made from a loosely spun yam the nature of which is hard to determine, as the fibres are too coarse and straight for ordinary sheep’s wool, and yet not like most buffalo hair or wool. This sack enclosed two thimbles containing tiny sacks of medicine, a bead of the large purple wampum usually called “Dutch,” two pebbles of some soft yellowish mineral, a bit of bone, a metal jingler with red dyed deer hair tassel, a paper package of ground herb medicine, three packages of bits of the yellow mineral and a package of gypsum crystals.
A brown weasel skin containing a baby’s moccasin, in the toe of which were tied two red mescal beans.
Buckskin bag, the inside colored yellow, containing seeds.
Five packages of herbs, roots and mixtures, one of the latter including red down as an ingredient.
Witch Bundle.
Bundle 2/6378.
The belief in witchcraft, is practically universal among the Sac and Fox, being shared by the educated and progres- sive element, as well as the conservative portion of the tribe.
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