Nostril
A nostril is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening. In birds and mammals they contain branched bones or cartilages called turbinates[?] whose function is to warm air on inhalation and remove moisture on exhalation. Fish do not breathe through their noses, but they do have two small holes used for smelling which may be called nostrils.The nostrils of some whales are highly asymmetric, one nostril proceeding straight diagonally up to the blowhole, the other detouring to the back of the head.
Procellariiformes are distinguished from other birds by having tubular extensions of their nostrils.
be seen in the bleached bones scattered all over the vicinity of the
have a tradition of a flood, but as they differ only in the matter of
told around the camp.html">camp-fire, on General Carr's expedition against the
(buffalo.html">Buffalo Bill) was chief of scouts.
One day some of the men.html">men brought into camp a large bone, which the
Some Indian prisoners, who had been captured a short time before,
as they saw it, they, too, said it was the thigh.html">thigh-bone of a man.html">man.
Its peculiarity was its unusual size; in circumference it was as large
the thigh-bone of a man. They replied that a great many years ago,
was said they were tall enough to run alongside of a buffalo, pick him
his meat and eat it as they walked on. These large men became so
This angered the Great Spirit, and he made the rain come. It kept on
over their banks. The Indians were compelled to move out of the
allowed to remain there long. The water kept rising.html">rising and rising until
up, higher and higher, until they reached the top peaks of the Rocky
points, and all these big people.html">people were drowned. After they were all
returned to the original channels of the rivers and creeks. Then the
people whom he could handle and who would not defy him.
The word.html">word “medicine.html">medicine” in all of the tribes in some sense is a misnomer;[49]
word “prophet” in the Old Testament. The Indian form of government
priest. His dreams and his prophecies are held sacred by the people.
themselves, and he claims that his instructions have been disregarded.
tribe in their medicine-man surpasses all belief. The medicine lodge
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