Buffalo Bund

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The Buffalo League was a medicine league of the Iroquois - Indians who belonged to the category of mystical animals .

The dancers of this medicine society imitated the movements of the buffalo . They used the water drum and the horn rattle for this . An important element of the ceremony was the "buffalo pudding," which was designed to mimic the mud that the buffalo pounded in. The ceremony was intended to "stamp away" diseases.

literature

  • Arthur C. Parker: Secret Medicine Societies of the Seneca . In: American Anthropologist, Col. 11, 1909, pp. 161-185. (Reprinted by Kraus Reprint Corporation, New York 1962)