. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . r^ Fif). of Wauukige. of Thunder shamans. When the guests had assembled the robe washung up and shown to them. Then all who were present that time onward the host was a member of the order, and hecould wear the robe with safety. He could give his son the right to wear such a robe, but unless thatson had a similar vision he could not transmit the right to one of thenext generation. Little Soldier painted a buffalo robe with his per-sonal mystery decoration, and gave it to Two
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . r^ Fif). of Wauukige. of Thunder shamans. When the guests had assembled the robe washung up and shown to them. Then all who were present that time onward the host was a member of the order, and hecould wear the robe with safety. He could give his son the right to wear such a robe, but unless thatson had a similar vision he could not transmit the right to one of thenext generation. Little Soldier painted a buffalo robe with his per-sonal mystery decoration, and gave it to Two Crows, whose father hadbeen one of the leaders of the order of Thunder shamans. So TwoCrows wore the robe, and he can make another like it; but he can nottransmit the right to his son, Gai-bajT. Two Crows would have beenafraid to wear the robe or to copy the decoration on it had he not beena member of the order by direct inheritance from his father. Afather can clothe his son in such a robe when that son is large enough 39fi A STUDY OP SIOUAN Fig. 159 Tent of Wanukige. to go courting. The man cau uot give sacli a robe to Lis daughter, buthe can give oue to his sous son, or to his daughters sou, .should thatgrandson be a large youth, who has ueared or reached the age of xni-berty. If a man who became eligible by his vis-ion to membership in the order of Thundershamans ventured to wear the decoratedrobe without inviting the members of theorder to a feast, he incurred the anger ofthe members and misfortune was sure tofollow. Should a man wear such a deco-rated robe without having had a vision ofthe mystery object, he was in danger (ifthe object was connected with the Thun-der-being, etc.) of being killed by Omaha feared to decorate his robe,tent, or blanket with an object seen byanother persou in a dream or vision. Forinstance, George M iller would not dare tohaAe beans claws, horses hoofs, etc., onhis robe, because neither he nor his fatherever saw a bear
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