. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . v, 0.) This tent had two pipeson each side of the tent, double thenumber on the Inke-sabe tent (). Fig. 186 is given as the nikiedecoration of a robe belonging toWaqaga. The bird on the robe isan eagle. Members of the Pipe subgens of the Inke-sabc have eaglebirth names. And we know that Waqaga belonged to that sub gens. The author Joseph La Fleche and Two Crows to say, in18813, that while nikie names possessed a sacredaess, it was only thesacredness of antiquity, and that they were n
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . v, 0.) This tent had two pipeson each side of the tent, double thenumber on the Inke-sabe tent (). Fig. 186 is given as the nikiedecoration of a robe belonging toWaqaga. The bird on the robe isan eagle. Members of the Pipe subgens of the Inke-sabc have eaglebirth names. And we know that Waqaga belonged to that sub gens. The author Joseph La Fleche and Two Crows to say, in18813, that while nikie names possessed a sacredaess, it was only thesacredness of antiquity, and that they were not Wakanda^ the author now thinks that such a statement needs modifica-tion; for, besides what appears at the beginning of this section, weknow that among the Osage and Kansa the nikie names are associ-ated with the traditions preserved in the secret society of seven de-grees, and that this applies not only to names of gentes and sub-gentes,but also to personal nikie names. The author frightened an Osage inJanuary, 1883, by mentioning in public some of this class of names. r^- t. Fig. IBB.—Waqagas rube 410 A STUDY OF SIOUAN CULlS. OMAHA MKIE CUSTOMS. § 54. Among the uikie of the Omaha, the following may be men-tioned: The Wajifiga((-ataji, or Blackbird people. had a cniiouscustom during the harvest season. At that time tlie birds used todevour the coru, so the men of this sub-gens undertook to preventthem, by chewing some grains of corn which they spit around over thefield. Duiing a fog, tlie 3;e-i men would draw the figure of a turtleon the ground, with its head to the south. On the head, tail, middleof the back, and each leg, were placed suuxll i)ieces of a (red) breecih-cloth with some tobacco. They imagined that this would make thefog disappear veiy soou.^ The ;jjaze gens, being Wind people, fiaj)their blankets to start a breeze when mosquitoes abound.^ The xa-dagens have a form for the naming of a child on the fifth morning afterits birth, according to Lion, on
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