70 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1925 



visitinf^ and interviewing many families of these western Seneca 

 dwelling about Seneca, Mo., and Miami and Picher, Okla., Mr. 

 Hewitt was conA-inced that they are mainly emigrants from the 

 parent Seneca Tribe of New York and Canada and from the Cayuga 

 of these last-named places ; naturally, there are also some families of 

 other Iroquoian Tribes, such as the Wyandot and possibly the 

 Conestoga. A porcupine clan and a fox clan were reported. The 

 last was a Conestoga clan. 



]Mr, Francis La Flesche, ethnologist, completed his paper on two 

 versions of the child-naming rite of the Osage Tribe. The first ver- 

 sion belongs to the In-gthon-ga or Puma gens, and the second to the 

 Tsi-zhu Wa-shta-ge or Tsi-zhu Peacemaker gens. Each gens has its 

 OAvn version of the rite and no other gens can use it without per- 

 mission. This paper contains 201 typewritten pages and 20 illus- 

 trations. Mv. La Flesche spent a part of the month of May and all 

 of June, 1925, among the Osages. In the early part of this visit he 

 and his assistant, Ku-zhi-si-e, a full-blood Osage, undertook the la- 

 borious task of properly recording the gentile personal names used 

 by the full-blood members of the tribe and by some of the mixed 

 bloods. Superintendent J. George Wright, of the Osage Agency, 

 kindly permitted them to use as a guide in doing this work an annu- 

 ity pay roll of the third and fourth quarters of the year 1877, which 

 was found in the files of his office. This roll contains about 1,900 

 Indian names, most of them misspelled. Besides correcting the 

 spelling of the names, Mr, La Flesche and his assistant added to the 

 name of each annuitant the name of his or her gens. Ku-zhi-si-e 

 was much amused to learn that his boy name, " I-tse-tha-gthin-zhi," 

 was carried on the pay roll as " E-stah-o-gra-she," and that the 

 boy name of his friend " Wa-non-she-zhin-ga" was put on the rolls 

 as " Me-pah-scah," instead of " In-bae-sca," the correct name. 



When the work of revising the names on the annuity roll was 

 concluded, Ku-zhi-si-e drove over the hills on his farm with Mr. 

 J^a Flesche and showed him many wild plants which were useful 

 to the Indians as medicine or food. Some of these plants were 

 woven into large mats for house covering, and into rugs to spread 

 on the floor of the house to sit upon. 



Wo-non-she-zthin-ga (the cliief of tlie tribe) also took tramps 

 among the trees on his farm with Mr. La Flesche, and showed him 

 a number of trees and explained to him their uses, and gave to 

 him their native names, which he recorded. This man pointed out 

 a tree which he called "Zhon-sa-gi," hard wood. The saplings 

 of this tree he said were used for the frames of the houses. W^hen 

 green the wood was easily cut with a laiifc or ax, but when sea- 



