Frontierland, early 1970s
A trip on the Mark Twain is always time well spent. Here are two familiar vignettes to jog your memories! Over on Tom Sawyer Island, there is an Indian burial visible on that structure in the middle of the image. Wanting to know a little more about this ceremony, I did some Googlin'! One site said: When someone passed away, women of Teton Sioux Indians will first dress the body in the best garments before wrapping the body tightly in blankets or robes. Family and friends will then assemble and begin crying at the lodge. The mourning is continued until the body is removed. After mourning and chanting the body will then be places either in the branches of some tree or on a scaffold made for the purpose. Family members often placed food and valuables of all kinds with the body. Some family who can afford will also sacrifice several horses to place under the scaffold.
And... you knew it was probably going to be a photo of the Friendly Indian Village! The surrounding trees have almost engulfed the scene, but the young Indian boy (not so shiny!) and his faithful pooch observe us curiously, while the rest of the tribe performs necessary chores.
5 comments:
Hey, Major-
You taught us some learnin' today. Well, thank you.
It's hard to make fun of a scene depicting a burial site, even one that isn't real. So I won't. Did we ever discuss what that circle with the skulls was for? There appears to be a mound of ashes in the center.
Not So Shiny Boy is the brother of Shiny Boy. They took turns standing guard on the canoe. At first I thought there weren't any papeeses in the scene. But I think I see one (maybe two) through the water reeds on the left edge of the photo. As usual, they are curing in the sun. Also, the elk (deer?) in the background are still doing the conga.
Thanks, Major.
Not to be a wet blanket Nanook, but the Major gives us ‘learnin every day. We can now tell blurzzles from snoozles, how to properly wear a bubuska ( but not how to spell it) we are all now experts in where to place trash cans, and telephone poles. (Why do they need poles again?) we also know to stop and smell the Mickey shaped flowers when riding the monorail, people mover and trains and where to find the best place to get a burrito.
I forgot to thanks the Major for the learnin today, and some great pictures. Not to mention the junior grollias for the insightful comments
“….over on the island is the Indian bed of death …. At night Indians will return to show respect to the brave warriors who brought great honor to their tribe ….”
“That village of friendly Indians will probably let us pass …. They call our steamboat PENELOR ; which means “fire canoe” — probably because of the smoke coming from our stacks - They believe our steamboat is their “comet of the Summer” returning to bring good luck to their tribe.”
“Walt Disney once said ‘Disneyland. Will never be completed as long as there is imagination left in the world - and that imagination is going to work again because Big thunder Runaway Railroad is moving in! Big thunder runs the fastest trains in the wilderness ! And You can experience them for yourself when the construction walls come down in the fall of 1979…”
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