Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
Tribal circles 219 The Omaha tribal circle 219 Rules for pitching the tents 220 The sacred tents 221 The sacred pipes 221 Gahige's account of the tradition of the pipes 222 A^n-ba-hebe's account of the same 222 Law of membership 225 The Weji^n cte or Elk gens 225 The Iñke-sabe...
§ 9. In former days, whenever a large camping-ground could not be found, the Ponkas used to encamp in three concentric circles; while the Omahas, who were a smaller tribe, pitch...
20. CHAPTER X.§ 225. _Riddles_, Wá¢ade.--"Níaci^nga wi^n ní kě´di hí éga^n, da^n´be ʞĭ, xagé gí. Edáda^n ă?--_A person having gone to the water, and looked at it is coming back weeping. What...
16. CHAPTER VII.§ 127. Industrial occupations among the ₵egiha may be treated of in three grand divisions: I. Those relating to the Sustenance of Life; II. Those concerning the Protection of Li...
19. Part I.)The next day the people in the village say, "Ha^n´adi nuda^n´ a¢a´-bikeamá."--_It is said that last night they went off in a line on the war-path._
14. CHAPTER V.§ 80. _Age of puberty and marriage._--It is now customary for girls to be married at the age of fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen years among the Omahas, and in the Ponka tribe the...
22. CHAPTER XII.§ 299. The law, which is the body of rules that the State endeavors directly or indirectly to enforce, may be properly classed as follows: 1. Personal law. 2. Property law. 3. C...
17. CHAPTER VIII.§ 164. _Meat._--They ate the "ʇa," or dried meat of the buffalo, elk, deer, but seldom tasted that of the beaver. They cut the meat in slices (wága), which they cut thin (máb¢eʞ...
21. CHAPTER XI.§ 280. Regulative industries are such as pertain to the government of the tribe, embracing all organizations which are "wewaspeaʇa¢ica^n," _i. e._, such as are designed to make...
13. CHAPTER IV.4. Inter-gentile kinship, existing between contiguous gentes. This last is not regarded as a bar to intermarriage, _e. g._, the Weji^ncte and Iñke-sabě gentes are related; and t...
15. CHAPTER VI.§ 116. _Medicines or fetiches taken along._--Some of the ₵egiha used to take their respective medicines with them, saying, "Our medicines are wise; they can talk like men, and t...
18. CHAPTER IX.§ 182. The Indians say that Ictinike was he who taught their ancestors all their war customs, such as blackening the face. (See myth of Ictinike and the Deserted Children in Con...
11. CHAPTER II.§ 6. "A state," said Maj. J. W. Powell, in his presidential address to the Anthropological Society of Washington, in 1882, "is a body politic, an organized group of men with an...
10. CHAPTER I.§ 1. The Omaha Indians belong to the ₵egiha group of the Siouan family. The ₵egiha group may be divided into the Omaha-₵egiha and the Kwapa-₵egiha. In the former are four tribes...
9. CHAPTER XII.--THE LAW 364PLATE XXX.--Map showing the migrations of the Omahas and cognate tribes 212 XXXI.--Tent of Agaha-wacuce 237 XXXII.--Omaha system of consanguinities 253 XXXIII.--Omaha system of...
3. CHAPTER III.--THE GENTILE SYSTEM 219Tribal circles 219 The Omaha tribal circle 219 Rules for pitching the tents 220 The sacred tents 221 The sacred pipes 221 Gahige's account of the tradition of the pipes 222 A^n-...
5. CHAPTER V.--DOMESTIC LIFE 259Courtship and marriage customs 259 Domestic etiquette--bashfulness 262 Pregnancy 263 Children 265 Standing of women in society 266 Catamenia 267 Widows and widowers 267 Rights o...
4. CHAPTER IV.--THE KINSHIP SYSTEM AND MARRIAGE LAWS 252Classes of kinship 252 Consanguineous kinship 253 Affinities 255 Marriage laws 255 Whom a man or woman cannot marry 256 Whom a man or woman can marry 257 Importance of the subge...
1. CHAPTER I.--INTRODUCTION 2112. CHAPTER II.--THE STATE 2156. CHAPTER VII.--INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS 2837. CHAPTER VIII.--INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS (CONTINUED) 3038. CHAPTER X.--AMUSEMENTS AND CORPORATIONS 334