. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . of his gens(the Ictasanda, a Thunder andReptile gens) feared to imitateit. The father ijromised to paintthis decoration on four whiteblankets for his sou George, but he died before he could paint thefourth one. George received the first one whenhe was about seventeen years of he married he had worn outthree. He still has the right to dec-orate and wear the fourth blanket,according to his fathers could decorate other white blan-kets in this style, and wear them, ifhe wished, but
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . of his gens(the Ictasanda, a Thunder andReptile gens) feared to imitateit. The father ijromised to paintthis decoration on four whiteblankets for his sou George, but he died before he could paint thefourth one. George received the first one whenhe was about seventeen years of he married he had worn outthree. He still has the right to dec-orate and wear the fourth blanket,according to his fathers could decorate other white blan-kets in this style, and wear them, ifhe wished, but he could not transmitto any one of his children (the grand-children of Little Soldier) the rightto make and wear such a decoration,unless George himself should here-after see the objects in a dream orvision. The right to use such designs ona buffalo robe, blanket, tent, etc., must originate with one who has had iThis Kwapa information was obtained in January, 1891, some time after the preparation of thegreattr part of this paper. In such a combiuatiuu as d«f the <p is scarcely Flo. 156.—Georjie ilillera personal mystery decoration.
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