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This word provides an alternate name for izze-kloth, a four-stranded knotted cord used in Apache rituals. (15[1])A Crow legend states that a man named Scarface or Starboy built a large stone arrangement named for this word in the Bighorn mountains. The rituals of a religious group (15[1])named for this word originated with Great Rabbit’s gift of a drum, a rattle, (15[1])and tobacco to Otter. Initiation into that group named for this word (15[1])includes ceremonial “shooting” of cowrie shells (15[1])into candidates. Cedar, sage, sweetgrass, and (*) tobacco used for smudging rituals are represented by red, black, (10[1])white, (10[1])and (10[1])yellow quadrants in a diagram (10[1])named for this word. (10[1]-5[1])A religious group named for this word (-5[1])transmits teachings on wiigwaasabak (“weeg-WAH-suh-buck”), or birch bark scrolls, and holds initiations in lodges. The cardinal directions are represented in “wheels” named for this word. For 10 points, the Anishinaabe (10[1])Midewiwin is a “grand society” named for what specific word, which is also prefixed to “man” in a colloquial term (10[1])for shamans? ■END■ (10[1])

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