| Show SUN DANCi A CE Mr Jh M m it Wn for by hy Hint Ilium Washington Aug 85 Mooney looney of nr the bureau of DC ethnology has line made a II statement to Proto Langley y secretary of the Smithsonian Institute In regard to the sun lUll dance which lr Ire Is IB Md to have hae lie Ito that the dance was paid halt toe for by h him in III whole or In tim part but mit caya that It wail time the regular cI enacted by b numerous tribes on 01 various reserva reservations lulls every ever year yeam eal Within tIme the past pant 10 yours years NUS Mr Mooney says he bus lumis four foul of these thc e dances which were hell held with time tho full tull knowledge und mend sanction of the agent He denies denied that thiat any on dancer was strung up till with cords that of the indians In who particIpated In the tInt lately lucId held one olle was wan ne anxious to undergo o othe the time peculiar form Carom of tit torture Ir once with a vow of or sacrifice Prof Irot Mooney that a public council of chiefs vas held rind and he me ad nil advised against anything In iii the nature of torture although he lie learned tI after lifter afterward ward tard on him the last night of limit thi dance the time man mali to 10 lied hall two t o slits In hi his breast bron jt with a n each cut ut being about half an nil Inch In ill length lie He declared that he was wag not mint present amid lid did not 1101 know of or the occurrence un an until until til II th the next nest day Iny daylie He lie refutes the charge that lint he hired or Instigated nn an Indian to drag a 11 tuf buffalo falo nb tRail by h i moms means of cords toros over skewers fixed tl In the mans man shout tiers ders He lie nays he III not pr nt when wilen tins tIme man started but hut that later hater Mr Ir Seger Seler th Ih the superintendent who ho It II Is gail Enid l made mad the charges agaInst him witnessed the act Ret and attempted attempt no hO interference |
