People have a confidence in the power of medicine to cure disease scarcely less than the dusky warrior has in the Indian medicine-lodge of the Western wilderness, and a confidence about as void of reason. ❋ Edward Hooker Dewey (N/A)
The next day at noon sharp Andramark stood before the entrance of the medicine-lodge with his arms folded; and all his boy and girl friends watched him from a distance. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)
Andramark had never seen the inside of the medicine-lodge; but it was well known to be very dark, and to contain skulls and thigh-bones of famous enemies, and devil-masks, and horns and rattles and other disturbing and ghostly properties. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)
It was quite obvious that the medicine-men were just having fun, not with him, but with all the women and children of the village who were outside listening -- at a safe distance, of course -- and imagining that the medicine-lodge was at that moment a scene of the most awful visitations and terrors. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)
He might sit, or stand, or lie down; he might walk about; but he mustn't think of going to sleep, or, indeed, of anything but the knowledge and mysteries which had been revealed to him in the medicine-lodge. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)
The right of the kin to 'separate worship' appears not only established within the kin's territory, but it is also recognized even at the central medicine-lodge of the tribe. ❋ Lewis H. Morgan (1849)
During the intervals between these dances, all these characters, except those from the medicine-lodge, retire to a wigwam close by, which they use ou the occasion also as a sacred place, being occupied exclusively by them \chile they are at rest, and also For the purpose of painting and ornamenting their bodies for the occasion. ❋ Unknown (1841)
Of these kinds of sacrifices there are three of an interesting nature, erected over the great medicine-lodge in the center of the village-they consist of ten or fifteen yards of blue and black cloth each, purchased from the Fur Company at fifteen or twenty dollars per yard, which are folded up so as to resemble human figures, with quills in their heads and masks on their faces. ❋ Unknown (1841)
Such then was the group, and such the appearance of the interior of the medicine-lodge during the three first, and part of the fourth day also, of the IMandan religious ceremonies. ❋ Unknown (1841)
Reader, I will return with you a moment to the medicine-lodge, which is just to be closed, and then we will indulge in some general reflections upon what has passed, and in what, and for what purposes this strange batch of mysteries has been instituted and perpetuated. ❋ Unknown (1841)
During the three first days of this solemn conclave, there mere many very curious forms and amusements enacted in the open area in the middle ofthe village, and in front of the medicine-lodge, by other members of the community, one of which formed a material part or link of these strange ceremonials. ❋ Unknown (1841)
On the next morning at sunrise, however, he made his appearance again, and entered the medicine-lodge; and at his heels (in "Indian file", i.e. single file, one following in another's tracks) all the young men who mere candidates for the self-tortures which were to be indicted, and for the honours that were to be bestowed by the chiefs on those who could moat manfully endure them. ❋ Unknown (1841)
Mandans are a strange and peculiar people; and most correctlv had I been informed, that this was an important and interesting scene, dy those who had, on former occasions, witnessed such parts of it as are transacted out ofdoors, and in front of the medicine-lodge. ❋ Unknown (1841)
Morning came, and he soon learned from some of his friends, the opinions of the wise men; and also the nature of the tribunal that was preparing for him; he sent to the prairie for his three horses, which were brought in, and he mounted the medicine-lodge, around which, in a few moments the villagers were all assembled. ❋ Unknown (1841)
I seized my sketch-book, and all hands of us were in an instant in front of the medicine-lodge, ready to see and to hear all that was to take place. ❋ Unknown (1841)
The "Mondan religious ceremony" then, as I believe it is veryjustly denominated, is an annual transaction, held in their medicine-lodge once a year, as a great religious anniversary, and for several distinct objects, as I shall in a few minutes describe; during and after which, they look with implicit reliance for the justification and approval of the Great Spirit. ❋ Unknown (1841)
There are four sacrifices of black and blue cloths erected over the door of the medicine-lodge -- the visits of Oh-kee-hee-de (or Evil Spirit) were paid to four of the buffaloes in the buffalo-dance, as above described; and in every instance, the young men who underwent the tortures before explained, had four splints or skewers run through the flesh on their legs -- four through the arms and four through the body. ❋ Unknown (1841)
The bull-dance in front of the medicine-lodge, repeated on the four days, is danced four times on the first day, eight times on the second, twelve times on the third, and sixteen times on the fourth; (adding four dances on each of the four days,) which added together make forty, the exact number of days that it rained upon the earth, according to the Mosaic account, to produce the ❋ Unknown (1841)
They, only, were allowed as witnesses to the hocus pocus and conjuration devised by the doctors inside of the medicine-lodge; and they were called up by lot, each one in his turn, to spend ❋ Unknown (1841)
I mentioned that I had made four paintings of these strange scenes, and the first one exhibits the interior of the medicine-lodge at this moment; with the young men all reclining around its sides, and the conductor or mystery-man lying by the fire, crying to the Great Spirit. ❋ Unknown (1841)
