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First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology

Note wán — ILLUSTRATION OF THE METHOD OF RECORDING INDIAN LANGUAGES.

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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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