Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Didn't Make it Rain After All -- Seeking to break the drought which has had Nebraska in its sizzling grip for several months, chief Whirling Eagle (right) traveled from his home on the Omaha Reservation at Macy, Neb. to the city of Omaha, where he implored the thunder bird to bring rain upon the land. No immediate results were noticeable after the rainmaker's incantations. The old chief went through his rites on the back end of a truck at a busy street intersection. At the left in Photo is Na-Ba-Doo, who beat a buckskin drum and chanted while whirling eagle dances and prayed.
Didn't Make it Rain After All -- Seeking to break the drought which has had Nebraska in its sizzling grip for several months, chief Whirling Eagle (right) traveled from his home on the Omaha Reservation at Macy, Neb. to the city of Omaha, where he implored the thunder bird to bring rain upon the land. No immediate results were noticeable after the rainmaker's incantations. The old chief went through his rites on the back end of a truck at a busy street intersection. At the left in Photo is Na-Ba-Doo, who beat a buckskin drum and chanted while whirling eagle dances and prayed.
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Didn't Make it Rain After All -- Seeking to break the drought which has had Nebraska in its sizzling grip for several months, chief Whirling Eagle (right) traveled from his home on the Omaha Reservation at Macy, Neb. to the city of Omaha, where he implored the thunder bird to bring rain upon the land. No immediate results were noticeable after the rainmaker's incantations. The old chief went through his rites on the back end of a truck at a busy street intersection. At the left in Photo is Na-Ba-Doo, who beat a buckskin drum and chanted while whirling eagle dances and prayed.

Associated Press · [ca. June 1933]

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