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conception is furnished by an incident in the story of Lightning's 

 visit to the earth carrying all people in a sack. The Wolf-Star, 

 being jealous of the Evening-Star who has sent Lightning to the 

 earth, sends a ^olf to steal Lightning's pack. When the people 

 come out and observe the wolf's strange behavior, they kill him, 

 thus introducing death into the world. Lightning tells them to 

 skin the wolf, and to keep its hide on their sacred bundle. He tells 

 them also that wolves will multiply, and that they shall be known 

 as Tskiri.^ 



While there was no name for the four Pawnee bands together, an 

 old informant stated that in Nebraska the Skiri used to speak of the 

 other three bands together as tuha'wtt" (in South Band dialect the 

 word is tuxra'wtt") which means "village-east". This evidently 

 refers to the position of these bands in relation to the Skiri. The 

 orientation of the Pawnee bands in Nebraska according to present 

 informants was schematically as follows:" 



N 

 W tskiri kttkghaxki'' tsawi"'' pi'tahawira't" E 



S 



It is a matter of interest that contrary to the theoretical state- 

 ments that the Pawnees always maintained the same orientations 

 of the bands, the band locations in Oklahoma are about as follows: 



tskiri 

 W tsawi'"' E 



kttkghaxki'' 



pi'tghawira't" 

 S 

 The three bands which spoke South Band dialect or Pawnee 

 proper did not, however, have any name for themselves as a unit 

 group. Nevertheless restrictions upon intermarriage between bands 



' Dorsey, G. A., Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee, Mem. Amer. Folklore Soc.' 

 vol. 8, pp. 17-18, 1904. 



" Dunbar, op. cit., pp. 257-258, discusses the location of the bands as they were 

 oriented to each other in 1834. While his statements are ambiguous, their most 

 likely interpretation would make the band orientation agree with the statements 

 of our informants. Dunbar also gives tu'-ra-wit-u, eastern villages, as the name 

 applied by the Skiri to the other bands. 



Fletcher, A. C, Handbook, pt. 2, p. 214, gives the relative positions exactly as 

 we have recorded them. Grinnell, p. 218, also gives this order. Inasmuch as 

 our records were secured independently from Pawnees who had moved to Okla- 

 homa from Nebraska, and who knew the facts only from memory and tradition, 

 they are important confirmation of the earlier statements. 



