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PIPE BUNDLE [4 records]

Record 1 1992-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
OBS

Manuel des indiens du Canada à Pieds-noirs

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
OBS

... the annual dances... all seemed to the Blackfoot subsidiary to that one indispensable event, the transfer, with due ceremony of a sacred medicine bundle.... The pipe bundles were associated with the worship of the thunder.... A medicine-bundle might be anything from... a multitude of miscellaneous objects... stone pipes, etc kept inside a large rawhide bag, in which every article had a definite significance and called for a special song whenever its owner exposed it to the light....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
OBS

Danse exécutée par le Pieds-Noirs et les Gens-du-Sang.

OBS

Le calumet (...) est l'autel de l'Indien des Plaines : grâce au calumet, il communique avec son Créateur par l'intermédiaire de la fumée de tabac (...) [Le paquet médecine] des Pieds-Noirs contient la Pipe sacrée, diverses peaux (...) un hochet et du tabac (...)

Spanish

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Record 3 1986-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
CONT

The Sarcee believed in supernatural power that could be obtained through a vision or dream and enshrined in a medicine object(beaver bundle, pipe bundle) or a tipi painting...

OBS

See "medicine bundle" or "medicine bay".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
OBS

Voir «sac à médecine» ou «sac de médecine».

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
  • Religion (General)
CONT

The Source believed in supernatural power that could be obtained through a vision or dream and enshrined in a medicine object(beaver bundle, pipe bundle) or a tipi painting...

OBS

Sacred Indian medicine object. See "medicine bundle" or "medicine bag".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
  • Religion (Généralités)
OBS

Objet sacré de médecine indienne. Voir «sac à médecine».

Spanish

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