Ponca Societies And Dances

Description: 

In mourning the Ponca formerly cut off their hair, slashed the fleshy parts of their bodies, tore out their earring holes, and even hacked off their fingers. They also did the latter at the sun dance. Now the Ponca bury their dead in the ground altogether, but formerly they used scaffolds and trees.

Protocol: 
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Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Death, Tribal Actions
Original Date: 
1915
Creator: 
Carlisle Indian Press
Language: 
English
Rights: 
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Source: 
Skinner, A. Ponca societies and dances. Anthro Pap Am Mus Nat Hist 1915;11:801.
Identifier: 
9900615
Subject: 
Cultural Characteristics, Mortuary Practices
Type: 
Monograph