Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . the first of the two subdivisions of theHo°-ga great tribal division which symbolizes the earth. The Wa-zha-zhe subdivision typifies the water portion of the earth. LA FLESCHE] CHILD-NAMING KITE 87 Those who were given such names as 0-po-to°-ga, Great-elk;Mo°-thi°-ka-ga-xe, Maker-of-the-land; and Mo°-zho°-ga-xe, Maker-of-the-earth, know that they are members of the Elk gens whosehfe symbol is the male elk (36th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn.,p. 165, hues 274 to 354) and that the place of their gens
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . the first of the two subdivisions of theHo°-ga great tribal division which symbolizes the earth. The Wa-zha-zhe subdivision typifies the water portion of the earth. LA FLESCHE] CHILD-NAMING KITE 87 Those who were given such names as 0-po-to°-ga, Great-elk;Mo°-thi°-ka-ga-xe, Maker-of-the-land; and Mo°-zho°-ga-xe, Maker-of-the-earth, know that they are members of the Elk gens whosehfe symbol is the male elk (36th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn.,p. 165, hues 274 to 354) and that the place of their gens is with theHo-ga, the second of the two subdivisions of the Ho°-ga greattribal division which symbolizes the earth. The Ho-ga subdivisiontypifies the land portion of the earth. Men who bear the names Pi-gi, Acorn; U-bu-dse, Profusion;and No°-bu-dse, Profusion (bj^ the treading of the eagles on thebranches of the red oak tree) know that they are members of theTsi-zhu Wa-shta-ge (Peacemaker) gens, that the life symbol oftheir gens is the red oak tree, the emblem of fruitfulness, and that. Fig. 5.—Totemic cut of the boyshair. No. 1 is typical of the head and tail of the elk. No. 2 sym-boUzes the head, tail, and horns of the huflalo. No. 2a—the children of this subgens and those of theNi-ni-ba-to subgens of other gentes have their hair cut alike; the locks on each side of the bared crownindicate the horns of the buffalo. No. 3 represents the line of the buffalos back as seen against the 4b stands for the head of the bear. No. 4c figures the head, tail, and body of small birds. No. 4d,the bare head, represents the shell of the turtle; and the tufts, the head, fe«t, and tail of the animal. pictures the head, wings, and tail of the eagle. No. 5 symbohzes the four points of the compass con-nected by cross lines; the central tuft points to the zenith. No. 6 represents the shaggy side of the 7 indicates the horns and tail of the buffalo. No. S
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