| Show TELL OF HUMAN SACRIFICE significance of pair of thongs in new york museum will be apparent to all the curator of anthropology at the american museum of 0 natural history new york values among recent acquisitions in the pawnee indian collection a pair of thongs which are so tar far as known the only existing relics ot of the pawnees Paw nees tribal rite of making a human sacrifice to the morning star god ot of war curiously enough the pawnee god of war star is believed to have been the planet mars when life grew dull it devolved upon the pawnee priests to relieve the tedium of 0 the tepees by dreaming that old did morning star demar demanded ded a sac sacrifice ri then the bloods went on the warpath karpath until they captured a maiden ot of a hostile tribe after due ceremony she was bound by thongs to a scaffold her feet pointing right at old morning star himself when the brave bucks who rather prided themselves on their had stuck her so full of arrows that she looked like ft a hedgehog and when her heart had been cut out the party was over |
