"The Chief [Lone Tipi] Priest [Blue] preparing to form the third earth," symbolic of the moving forward of the warriors. Part of the secret rites outside the Lone-Tipi
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.T9732
label: Local Note
content: Cataloging based on examination of NAA file print.
label: Local Note
content: Negative
name: label: Creator
content: Dorsey, George Amos
label: Collector
content: Tilton, Willis G.
label: Collection Collector
content: Tilton, Willis G.
place: label: Place
content: Oklahoma -- Eagle City
creator: label: Creator
content: Dorsey, George Amos
label: Collector
content: Tilton, Willis G.
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
setName: label: See more items in
content: Willis G. Tilton collection of photographs of Native Americans
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (photographic negative)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1903
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Reproduced in FMAS, Pub. 103, Volume IX, Number 2, figure 17.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "The Chief Priest cleared a small circular area about two feet in diameter in front of him. The [sacred] pipe was passed to him and placed on the western edge of this cleared space, the stem pointing toward the south, the bowl upward." -- page 85. (See T-9739 for next step). As a prayer that the earth would bring forth fruit, the ashes from the sacred pipe were deposited in the center of the "earth" and the pipe stem was offered to the earth.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Related negatives in the Field Museum of Natural History, Photography Department, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496