. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fio. 188.—Bear Butte, South Dakota. (Copyright by Grabill, 1890.) tree. Some trees had as many as seven stones apiece. No child repeated the cere-mony of putting a stone uj) in the tree; but on subsequent visits to the Butte he orshe wailed for the dead, of whom the stones were tokens. (See § 304.) THE SUN AND MOON. § 138. The sun as well as the moou is called wi by the Dakota andAssiiiiboin tribes. In order to distinguish between the two bodies, theformer is called aypetu wi, day moon, and the latter,
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fio. 188.—Bear Butte, South Dakota. (Copyright by Grabill, 1890.) tree. Some trees had as many as seven stones apiece. No child repeated the cere-mony of putting a stone uj) in the tree; but on subsequent visits to the Butte he orshe wailed for the dead, of whom the stones were tokens. (See § 304.) THE SUN AND MOON. § 138. The sun as well as the moou is called wi by the Dakota andAssiiiiboin tribes. In order to distinguish between the two bodies, theformer is called aypetu wi, day moon, and the latter, liaijhepi wi orhayyetu wi, night moon. The corresponding term in (/!egiha is mi,which is applied to both sun and moon, though the latter is sometimescalled niaba. The moon is worshiped rather as the representativeof the sun, than separately. Thus, in the sun dance, which is held inthe full of the moon, the dancers at night fix their eyes on her. § 139. According to Smet— The sun is worshiped by the greater number of the Indian tribes as the author oflight and heat. The Assiniboiu
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