Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-05-18
Population of Tulsa.
How Tulsa Has Grown.


uaton of 1890 persons should today boast of between
$4,000 and 10000 population?
The very ground which some Of the buildings shown
this page stand today used twenty years ago for In
dian stomp dances.
One of Tulsas most beautiful residences, costing better
than $60000 stands upon the very spot where the In
dans staged their noted Corn Dance This dance
of the weird and beautiful Of all the Indian folk
and marked the annual Busk or festival The cele
braon of the Pukta occasion of amnesty forgive
and absOuton of crime injury and hatred season OF
change of mind, symboized in various ways
Lasted Four to Eight Days,
The day of beginning of the celebration of the Puskta,
which took place chiefly the town square was deter
mined by the mko chief and his councils and the cere-
mony itself which had local variations lasted for four days
the of less note and eight days In the more I'M
poan Hawkins Sketch 184S has left description of the
buk boosketau carried out in the white or
peace town of Kasha in 1889 The chief points are as
follows
First day: The yard of the square is cleaned in the
ing and prnkled with white sand while the black drink Is
being prepared The fire maker specially appointed kndes
new fire by friction the four logs for the fire being arranged
crosswe with reference to the cardinal points Inc women
of the Turkey elan dance the turkey dance while the very
strong emec called passa is being brewed this is drunk
from about to the middle of the afternoon Then comes
the tadpoe dance performed by four men and four women
known "tadpoes" From evening until dawn the dance
of the hniha is performed by the The old men to-
bacco" is also prepared on the first day.
Second day: At about 10 o'clock the women perform the
pn dance so called from the men firing guns during
tnuance the approach the fire. rub some
of its ashes the chn neck and belly and jump headtore
into the river and then return to the square Meantime
for the Before the feast begins the as they ar
rive rub of the maize between their hands and then on
the face and chest.
Third day: The sit in the square
Fourth day: The who have risen early for this
purpose obtain of the fire with which they knde
similarly constructed pile OF logs on their own hearths
which have previously been cleaned and sprnked with sand
ceremony of ash rubbing pngng into water etc. is then
performed by them, after which they taste some salt and
dance the 'ong dance
Fifth day: The four logs of the fire. which last only four
days having been consumed four other logs similarly ar
tInf lyi,lat hafOp Dftp
drink the black drink.
Sixth and seventh days: During this period the
main in the town square.
Eighth day: In the square and outside of it impressive
ceremonies carried medical mixture concoced by
stirring and beating in water fourteen kinds of plants the
modern Creeks ffteen) supposed to have virtue as
physc used by the drink to rub their JOINTS
etc. after the priests have blown into it through small reed
Another curious mixture composed chiefly OF the ashes OF
old corncobs and pine bough mixed with water and stirred
by four girls who have not reached puberty prepared IN
not and two pans of mixture of white clay and
likewise prepared aferward by the The chief and the
warriors rub themselves with Of both these mixtures
After this two men, who are specially appointed bring
flowers of old mems tobacco to the chiefs house and each
person present receives portion Then the chief and his
counseor walk four times around the burning logs throw
ing some of the old mems tobacco INTO the ire each tme
they face the and then stop when facing the west When
this concluded the warriors do the same The next cere-
mony is as follows:
The Death Whoop
At the mikos cabin having two white feathers
its end is stuck out At the moment when the sun sets
man of the Fish clan takes down and walks followed by
all spectators toward the river Having gone half way he
utter the deathwhoop and repeats it four times before
reaching the waters edge After the crowd has hicky
gregaed bank each person places grain of old men
tobacco the head and others each Then at signal
repeated four times they throw of into the river
and every a like signal plunges into the river to pick
up from the bottom With these they them
selves their breasts four times each time throwing one OF
the stones into the river and uerng the death whoop
They then wash Themselves take up the with the
feathers the square, where they stick it then
walk through the town visiting After nghtta comes the
mad dance which concludes