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Placating the Spirit
of the Slain Eagle - Assiniboin (1926)
Photogravure
Portfolio XVIII, plate 634
"For their feathers, which were used in many ways as ornaments and
as fetishes, eagles were caught by a hunter concealed in a brush-covered
pit. A rather elaborate ceremony took place over the bodies of the
slain birds for the purpose of placating the eagle spirits." -Curtis
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