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Mary: They had bell, you know, (not clear) But I don't remember of a woman-12- - * T-621-4• J>(They just leare it.)Um-huh.(You don't know any particular ceremony connected with it?)•Mary:No,' I don't remember. .1 know if a football was made--if a man was asked^to make a football, why naturally they.'re going to-give, him something.And sometimesthey'll give-him_maybe a bl£ket--maybe just a blanket.Or maybe they'llgive him a-.-materlal, you know. And they be some few groceries on the side. ^_But they give him something for making it. .-They always give him something.They always give one another things. ; '(Well, what x do they mean—like when they say about these .turtle shells thatthey dance with—when they say they are doctored.)Mary: . What do you mean?. What did you say? f /. • .(They say they are- doctored—talked over.)Mary: Well, I've nej^er heardjsT that. * >(Pauline talks about it.She says those shells of hers, she wouldn't lo*anthem because they were doctore'd.)Mary: I know she'd told me that, you know.o. - •Well, the Quapaws never had any—shells. They didn.'t use them shells.Mary: They never did use them shells. That was brought in years later.(It wasn't really a Quapaw custom, thea?).No.Mary: No, we ^ust played football, you iiriow. Football game.(Well, you danced.)•Mary:.'Yeah, we danced.We--We didn't have no shell shaking of anything.Mary:We didn't have no. ^hell shaking, you know.(Ttiat's a more--maybe from the Jreeks, maybe.Yeah, she lived with the Cree/..awhile you know.Quapaws lived with the Creeks.)
'-13-putting their bells abound her ankles when they danced.that.(Biey don't do that now, do they?)JI never did remember. Mary:- Well there are some. Some Shawnees do.(Do they?) - '•.•'•Mary:Oh yes. , Hiere are some Shawnees do that.(Well, Pauline was just talking about these shells, that she didn't want to pJ.oan them .to anybody because they were doctored.And I wondered about it.Maybe-^tape i^ inaudible for about'two sentences while Mary and Tannie are; talking. )• I guess we will just have to talk to her-about it won't) we.) (laughs)(End of interview)
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