. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ent were seven stripes, three on each side of theentrance and one in the rear. Each robe that he wore had seven-stripes. Fig. 1(10 represents the personal mystery decoration of (faqubeof theAjaze gens. George Millers father couldwear this decoration, but the right to itcouhl not be him to anyone else, jahe japC, of the ^jei sub-gens of the (|atada gens, once had a vis-ion of two stars and the new moon. Con-sequently he decorated his buffalo robe,as .shown in Fig. 101, and Joined the ord
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ent were seven stripes, three on each side of theentrance and one in the rear. Each robe that he wore had seven-stripes. Fig. 1(10 represents the personal mystery decoration of (faqubeof theAjaze gens. George Millers father couldwear this decoration, but the right to itcouhl not be him to anyone else, jahe japC, of the ^jei sub-gens of the (|atada gens, once had a vis-ion of two stars and the new moon. Con-sequently he decorated his buffalo robe,as .shown in Fig. 101, and Joined the orderof Thunder shamans. He died when theauthor was at the Omaha agency (between1878 and 1880). GENERIC OF DECOHATIOX. § 4(5. There are examples of genericforms of decoration, as well as those ofspecific forms. For instance, when a i)er-son had a vision of the night, or of the ^-^-<^ ^™°° so night, etc. Thunder-being, or one of some other su- perterrestrial object, he blackened the upper part of his tent and a small ijortion on each side of the entrance, as shown in Fig. IGU,. 398 A STUDY OF SIOUAN CULTS. It was given thns by Geoigc Miller: Niaciigai amd agudi cte ha dact6 i^aefe ama :)i iig(j;ii j[i, People the where ever night for example they have the tent tliey if pi,sub. ?wid6ta sabefai, ki ci one-half the they blacken and againlength dwell agudi where visions pi. of it. .sub. in cte, nikaci^ga am4 ing^a ifae^e amd ever people the pi. thunder they have the being visions it. CI 6ga° ug(}-i-biama. again so they dwell in,they say. SPECIFIC FORMS OF DECORATION. A siieeifie form related to the generic one just described is shown inFig. 163. The blackened part of the tent represents the night, and the star denotes the morning star. There wasa star on the left hand at the back of thetent, and another star on the right and blue are occasionally inter-changeable in Omaha symbolism; hencewe find that the night is represented by ablue band on a
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