﻿NO. I SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I925 II7 



I command you, not to forget my words, for surely if you do, evil 

 will befall us ; since our time to increase the number of livins: 

 things on the earth on which we live, is not yet fully come." 



But there came an evil day when, very busy with her mat-making, 

 and with her back unconsciously turned sunward at noon-tide, she 

 dropped her mat-gauge on the ground and unwittingly stooped 

 forward to pick it up. Instantly, she was seized with exhausting 

 pains after the manner of women. 



So, in due time, the daughter gave birth to a son, whom she 

 named Inabi"oji'o' (i. c.^. Formed, Created, by a Look). She con- 

 tinued bearing offspring until four other sons were born to her — • 

 all brothers of Inabi"oji'o'. In order of their birth these brothers 

 were named Ningabeon (The West), Kiwedinese (The North). 

 Wabanese (The East), and Shawanese (The South). After this 

 time ]\Iisakamigokwe became Nokomis, the grandmother of all living 

 things. 



In this highly condensed and abbreviated recital of the common 

 Algonquian myth of the Beginnings is given the key to the literal 

 signification of the name Nanabozho (Wenabozho, etc.). or Inabi"- 

 oji'o'. This name is based on the common Algonquian verb tv a b, 

 " to see, to look," which with associated elements, expressed and 

 understood, gives the literal meaning " created, conceived, made, 

 through the look, the gaze (of the Great Father Spirit). 



ETHNOLOGICAL WORK AMONG THE OSAGE OF OKLAHOMA 



In May, 1925, Mr. Francis La Flesche, ethnologist, of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, visited the Osage Reservation, Oklahoma, 

 to continue his work among the Indians of that reservation. He 

 was met at Nelogany station by his friend, Ku-zhi-si-e, in his big 

 automobile and driven to his house in the Indian village about a 

 mile from the town of Pawhuska. 



The afternoon was passed by Mr. La Flesche and Ku-zhi-si-e 

 in planning the work they were to do together. They agreed to do 

 first that part which promised to be the most laborious, that of 

 recording and classifying the personal names of the members of the 

 tribe according to gentes and sub-gentes, and of giving where pos- 

 sible, the meaning of each name. To avoid confusion in the per- 

 formance of the work, Ku-zhi-si-e suggested the use of the early 

 annuity pay rolls which contained the names of every man, woman, 

 and child. 



