CHAPTER VII.--Concluding remarks 520
Peet on Indian religions 520 The author’s reply 521 Cults of the elements 522 The four quarters 524 Symbolic colors 527 Colors in personal names 533 The earth powers 534 Earth gentes 534 The fire powers 534 Fire gentes 536 The wind-makers 536 Wind gentes 537 Each quarter reckoned as three 537 Names referring to other worlds 537 The water powers 537 Water people 538 Cautions and queries 538 Composite names 539 Personal names from horned beings 541 Names derived from several homogeneous objects or beings 542 Return of the spirit to the eponym 542 Functions of gentes and subgentes 542 The “Messiah craze” 544 Epilogue 544
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PLATE XLIV. Siouan tents (_A_, tent of Ԁejequta; _B_, tent of Mazi-jiñga (man in the sun); _C_, tent of Heqaga; _D_, tent of Kaxe-ȼaⁿba’s father; _E_, tent of Hupeȼa, Sr., and Agaha-wacuce) 361 XLV. Camping circle at the time of the sun dance 454 XLVI. The dancing lodge 458 XLVII. Scarification of candidates (1, Okáska nażin; 2, Ptepa kin waći) 460 XLVIII. The sun dance 462 XLIX. A suspended devotee 464 L. The double woman 480
FIG. 156. George Miller’s personal mystery decoration 394 157. A variant of Fig. 156 394 158. Robe of Wanukige 395 159. Tent of Wanukige 396 160. Robe of Ȼaqube 396 161. Robe of Ԁahe-ʇap‘ĕ 397 162. Generic decoration referring to night, etc. 397 163. Tent of Aⁿpaⁿ-ska, Sr. 398 164. Robe of Aⁿpaⁿ-ska, Sr. 399 165. Tent of Mazi-jiñga (ghost vision) 399 166. A tent of Nikuȼibȼaⁿ 399 167. Another tent of Nikuȼibȼaⁿ 399 168. Blanket of Cuʞa maⁿȼiⁿ 400 169. Tent of ┴esaⁿ; vision of a cedar 401 170. Tent of ┴esaⁿ; sun and rainbow vision 401 171. Cornstalk decoration of the tents of Fire Chief and Waqaga 402 172. Robe of Ni-ȼactage 403 173. Duba-maⁿȼiⁿ’s father’s tent 403 174. Maⁿtcu-naⁿba’s tent 403 175. Wackaⁿhi’s tent 404 176. Tent of an unknown Omaha 404 177. Tent of ┴ebi‘a 405 178. Tent of a Kansa who had an eagle vision 405 179. Kansa decorated tent 406 180. Kansa decorated tent 406 181. Maⁿze-guhe’s robe 406 182. Maⁿze-guhe’s tent 407 183. Duba-maⁿȼiⁿ’s father’s blanket 407 184. Iñke-sabĕ tent decoration 408 185. Iñke-sabĕ tent decoration 409 186. Waqaga’s robe 409 187. Sacred tent in which the pole was kept 413 188. Bear Butte, South Dakota 449 189. The “u-ma-ne” symbol 451 190. Eagle-wing flute 455 191. The tent of preparation and the dancing lodge 459 192. The ghost lodge 487 193. The Ȼatada gentile circle 523 194. The four elements, etc. 523 195. Kansa order of invoking winds, etc. 525 196. Tsiɔu (Osage) order of placing the four sticks, etc. 525 197. Paⁿɥka (Osage) order of placing the four sticks, etc. 526 198. Kaⁿ[s]e (Osage) order of circumambulation 526 199. Showing how the Osage prepared the scalp for the dance 526 200. Omaha lightnings and the four quarters 527
A STUDY OF SIOUAN CULTS.
BY JAMES OWEN DORSEY.