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Scattered throughout the Indian country are found spots that are virtually shrines. These are often bowlders or other rocks which through some chance have been invested with mythic significance, and to them priests and war-leaders repair to invoke the aid of the supernatural powers. The half-buried bowlder on which the suppliant stands is accredited with the power of revealing to the warrior the foreordained result of his projected raid. Its surface bears what the Indians call the imprint of human feet, and it is owing to this peculiarity that it became a shrine. About it the soil is almost completely worn away by the feet of many generations of suppliants who have journeyed hither for divine revelations.
Sioux Nation Photogravure Portrait photography Portraits Native Americans Men's clothing Clothing and dress Weapons Rites and ceremonies
Source
Photogravure, 18.25 x 22.25 inches: The North American Indian: being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska, 970.6 C942 vol. 3 plates, William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
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