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- “Big-head,” a solar god
- She had a little fawn-skin bag, worked with red porcupine quills
- Hidatsas Earth lodge
- A Buffalo Hunt
- Serpent
- Then he arose and took my baby tenderly in his arms
- Corn Husking
- We were clad warmly, for the weather was chill. All had robes
- At one side of our field Turtle had made a booth
- My grandmother Turtle made scarecrows to frighten away the birds
- Old Turtle made me a dolly of deer skin stuffed with antelope hair
- Buffalo heart skin bucket
- Screen of the Alósaka
- When my sack was filled, I tied it shut and slung it on my back by my packing strap
- ver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.
- In daytime lookouts were always on the roofs of some of the lodges
- Winter clothing
- I loaded my boats on the travois of two of my dogs
- Kwátaka, bird with sun symbolism
- I would lay the puppy between my shoulders and draw my tiny robe up over his back
- Common Hopi sun symbol
- Turtle’s hoe was made of the shoulder bone of a buffalo set in a light-wood handle, the blade firmly bound in place with thong
- Snake Head-Ornament came close to her and fired off his gun
- Ahole
- Turtle, I think, was the last woman in the tribe to use an old-fashioned, bone-bladed hoe
- She laid the grass thickly over the sides of the little tepee
- At this hour, fires burned before most of the tepees
- Frog
- On his back I saw a handsome otter-skin quiver, full of arrows
- The day was windy and cold, and the bull skin kept the chill air from me and my babe
- She dropped her pack and came running back, her hands at each side of her head with two fingers crooked, like horns, the sign for buffaloes
- Fish
- Dancing Figure
- The beds of the rest of the family stood in the back of the lodge, against the wall
- Picking June berries
- Inside the lodge
- An earthen pot full of water stood by one of the posts near the fire
- Learning to work
- Red Blossom sat on the edge of her bed and finished her toilet
- A watchers’ stage
- They looked very terrible, all painted with the lower half of the face black
- Fawn
- Each dog dragged a travois loaded with wood
- Broiling Meat
- Hunters
- The harness was of two pieces - a collar, to go around the dog’s neck
- It was a great fish, a sturgeon
- Turtle and her old-fashioned digging stick
- Baby-like, I ran my fingers through the shiny grain, spilling a few kernels on the floor
- Indian Dogs
- We Hidatsas loved our good dogs, and were kind to them
- Fishes
- Mountain Sheep
- To eke out our store of corn and keep the pot boiling, my father hunted much of the time
- Another method Broiling Meat
- Two braves
- we women busied ourselves making bull boats
- Bird F
- Winter Camp
- Bird A