Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . < q: D01 ^^^HMMWP^^^^^^BHWBBjBfcM**^^ ^a^^^ ^-?fJSc.^ ^^^^^^^^^1 ^H / ^^ 9 tfififl^^^^^^^^^l ^^^1 ^ -^:Jt^ BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 12. BONE EAR PERFORATORS AND EXPANDERS LAFLESCHE) CHILD-NAMING RITE 93 The two gentes, the Ni-ka Wa-ko-da-gi and the Tho-xe, areclosely related, being joint custodians of the rites pertaining to (See 36th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 64-65.) The symbolichawks, each of which formed the central figure in the ceremonies o
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . < q: D01 ^^^HMMWP^^^^^^BHWBBjBfcM**^^ ^a^^^ ^-?fJSc.^ ^^^^^^^^^1 ^H / ^^ 9 tfififl^^^^^^^^^l ^^^1 ^ -^:Jt^ BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 12. BONE EAR PERFORATORS AND EXPANDERS LAFLESCHE) CHILD-NAMING RITE 93 The two gentes, the Ni-ka Wa-ko-da-gi and the Tho-xe, areclosely related, being joint custodians of the rites pertaining to (See 36th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 64-65.) The symbolichawks, each of which formed the central figure in the ceremonies ofthe war rites, were regarded as being in the special care of the Ni-kaWa-ko°-da-gi, while all of the thirteen o-do°, military honors, to bewon by each warrior of the tribe in order to secure ceremonial rank,belonged to the Tho-xe. The war honor must be won in a fight by awar party carrying a hawk, the tribal emblem of courage. The placesof these two gentes are on the Tsi-zhu side of the two great tribaldivisions, but they are not of the seven fireplaces of that great division. In the Tsi-zhu Wi-gi-e recited by Mo-zho°-a-ki-da (36th Bur. Amer. Ethn., pp. 277-285), relating to the mythical storyof the descent of the people from the upper to the lower wor
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