. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ilar belief about these pipes and the accompanying dance. Perhapsthere was a tUwc when no man could undertake the pipe dance unlesshe had a vision of some kind. OMAHA NIKIE DECORATIONS. 407 OMAHA NIKIE DECORATIONS. § As the geutes of the Omaha and Poiika are regarded as beingWakauda;a(|ica, the iiikie aud nikie names have a religionssignificance. George Miller has fnrnishedthe author with a few nikie decorations,\Nhi(h are now given. Maze-guhe, an Omaha, belonged to tlieWaiJ-igije sub-geus of the
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ilar belief about these pipes and the accompanying dance. Perhapsthere was a tUwc when no man could undertake the pipe dance unlesshe had a vision of some kind. OMAHA NIKIE DECORATIONS. 407 OMAHA NIKIE DECORATIONS. § As the geutes of the Omaha and Poiika are regarded as beingWakauda;a(|ica, the iiikie aud nikie names have a religionssignificance. George Miller has fnrnishedthe author with a few nikie decorations,\Nhi(h are now given. Maze-guhe, an Omaha, belonged to tlieWaiJ-igije sub-geus of the Inke-sabe decoration of his robe (Fig. 181) marksthe nikie of the sub-gens, as it consisted fifspiral forms known as wacf-igije. That ofthe tent (Fig. 182) refers to the uikie of theentire gens. In the latter case, the buftalohead was painted on the back of the tent. Dnba nia(|i, who has a nikie name refer-ring to the buftalo, belongs to the Wafigijesub-gens. His father wore a black blanket ,embroidered with beadwork in two rows of/. Allbeads. spirals, between which was a Flu. 182.— teut. these figures were made of white(See Fig. ) In the Pipe sub-gens of the irike-sabe there were several tent decor-ations. Of the first, George Miller speaks thus:
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