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	Plate XVI. Trophies and ceremonies after a victory. The sorcerer chants curses upon the enemy to the rhythm of three musicians. One beats a stone with a club and the other two shake gourds filled with small stones.
	Detailed view of Chief Outina and the Frenchmen from plate XVI.
	Detailed view of Chief Outina and the Frenchmen from plate XVI.
	Detailed view of Chief Outina and the Frenchmen from plate XVI.
	Detailed view of the sorcerer from plate XVI.
	Detailed view of the three musicians from plate XVI.
	Detailed view of Chief Outina's tribe from plate XVI.
	Detailed view of Chief Outina's tribe from plate XVI.
	Detailed view of Chief Outina's tribe from plate XVI.
	Plate XVII. Carrying the dead from the battlefield. Le Moyne noted that the dead were supported under their heads and had fur wrapped around their chest, thigh, and shin. He never learned the significance of this custom.
	Detailed view of men transporting the dead from plate XVII.
	Detailed view of men transporting the dead from plate XVII.
	Detailed view of men transporting the dead from plate XVII.
	Detailed view of a man transporting the dead from plate XVII.
	Detailed view of a man transporting the dead from plate XVII.
	Detailed view of the dead from plate XVII.
	Detailed view of the dead from plate XVII.
	Detailed view of plants from plate XVII.
	Plate XVIII. The widows approach the chief after a battle. Hiding their faces they petition the chief to avenge their husband's deaths, to provide for them in their widowhood, and to grant them permission to remarry after a period of mourning.
	Detailed view of the chief from plate XVIII.
	Detailed view of the chief from plate XVIII.
	Detailed view of the chief from plate XVIII.
	Detailed view of the mourning widows from plate XVIII.
	Detailed view of the mourning widows from plate XVIII.
	Detailed view of warriors from plate XVIII.
	Detailed view of warriors from plate XVIII.
	Detailed view of Frenchmen from plate XVIII.
	Detailed view of Frenchmen from plate XVIII.
	Plate XIX. The mourning widows. The widows placed their husband's drinking cup and weapons on their graves. Then they cut off their hair just below their ears and scatter it on the graves. When their hair grew down over their shoulders, they were permitted to re-marry.
	Detailed view of a widow scattering her hair from plate XIX.
	Detailed view of a widow scattering her hair from plate XIX.
	Detailed view of a widow scattering her hair from plate XIX.
	Detailed view of widows scattering their hair from plate XIX.
	Detailed view of a widow gathering her hair out of a basket from plate XIX.
	Detailed view of a drinking cup and weapons that were placed on a husband's grave from plate XIX.
	Detailed view of weapons that were placed on a husband's grave from plate XIX.
	Plate XX. How the Native Americans treat their sick. This plate shows three different practices. on the left, a sick man has his forehead cut and blood sucked out by someone who spits it into a jar. This is then consumed by pregnant women in the belief that it will make their babies stronger. On the right a man breathes smoke from on fire on which seeds have been thrown it order to purge his body of poisons. In the background, a man smokes tobacco in an attempt to cure an infection.
	Detailed view of a pregnant woman consuming blood from the sick from plate XX.
	Detailed view of a man sucking blood from the sick's forehead from plate XX.
	Detailed view of a fire from plate XX.
	Detailed view of children from plate XX.
	Detailed view of a man smoking tobacco from plate XX.
	Detailed view of a man aiding the sick from plate XX.
	Detailed view of the sick breathing smoke from a fire which has had seeds thrown into it from plate XX.
	Detailed view of the sick breathing smoke from a fire which has had seeds thrown into it from plate XX.

 

 

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