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Chief — Continued 



Ponca, VIII, 17, 19, 21, 22 (list), 30, 

 31, 32, 33, 39 



principal, 3, 17, 20, 21, 90 



second rank, vii, vni, 17, 40, 71, 92, 

 93, 94, 98 

 Chikaskia Creek, 36 

 Childbirth, 37, 143 

 Children, 40, 85, 144, 145 



activities of, 145 



capture of, 31 



clay figures made by, 80 



clothing of, 61 



death of, 34 



education of, 37, 38, 85, 145 



effects of divorce on, 84, 148 



games for, 129, 130, 145 



naming ceremony for, 146 



toys for, 55 



White, 129 

 Chilocco, Okla., 77 



Chilocco Agricultural School, Chilocco, 

 Okla., attended by Ponca In- 

 dians, 77, 163 

 Chiwere division of Siouan language 



family, 4 (list), 15 

 Choctaw Indians, 4, 160 

 Chokecherries, 42, 44, 51, 53, 151 

 Choreography, 103, 107, 110, 111, 113, 



114, 115, 116 

 Chouteau Creek, 15 

 Christmas, celebration of, 51 

 Church, Senator — , 39 

 Church, Christian, 99, 125 



Peyote, 99 



services, 50 

 Cigarettes, prayer, 125 



smoked socially, 47 

 Clamorgan, Jacques, trader, 25 

 Clans, 15, 40, 79, 81, 82, 83, 86-93, 97 



^ixida, 80, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 135, 

 150 



family position in, 81 



Hisada, 75, 87, 89, 90 



Ice (Nuxe), 19, 75, 87, 88, 89, 90 



Medicine, 19, 76, 79, 87, 89 



Nlkapdsna, 69, 87, 88, 89, 90, 135, 

 154 



Omaha, 86 



Ponca, 5, 69, 76, 86, 87, 90, 92 



Snake, 87, 88, 89, 90, 150 



taboos of, 88, 89, 90, 97 



Wasabe (grizzly bear), 87, 89, 90, 

 92, 93 

 Clark, William, 9 (map) , 27, 28 

 Clay, 8, 130 



blue ( Wase-du) , 53 



figures of, made by children, 80 



iron-bearing, 52 



yellow, 69 

 Climate, 7 

 Cloth, 12, 26 



See also Broadcloth ; calicoes. 

 Clothing, 58, 61, 79, 96 



for the dead, 154 



men's, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 79 



Clothing — Continued 



women's, 61, 66, 67 (fig. ) , 69, 156 



See also Costume ; Dress ; and in- 

 dividual items of apparel. 

 Clown cult, Dakota-inspired, 49 

 Clowns, ceremonial, 124 

 Club, 77 

 Coats, blue, 32 

 Cobbles, 53 



Cogswellia daucifolia, 69, 142 

 Collar, 61, 104 

 Collins, Charlie, 106 

 Collot, Gen. George H. V., map of, 24 

 Colors, significance of, 18 

 Columbine, wild, 69, 142 

 Columbus, Kans., 34 

 Columbus, Nebr., 33, 34 

 Comanche Indians, 18, 49, 66, 132, 161 



Ponca name for, 133 

 Combs, 26, 68 

 Constitution, application of to Indians, 



37 

 Contests, dance, 162 

 Cookery, 46 

 Coot (bird), 8 

 Copper, use of, 3 

 Cordage, 51 



Corn, 3, 12, 19, 20, 21, 23, 28, 29, 37, 38, 

 44, 45, 46, 79, 103 



mortars for, 51, 58 



parched, 125 



preservation of, 46 



red, white, blue, and yellow, 21 



scaffold for, 45 



sheller for, 45 



squaw, 20, 39, 74 

 "Corn balls," 46 

 Corncakes, 46 

 Cornfields, 21, 28, 29, 31 

 Corn legend, 20-21, 44 

 Corn smut, used as food, 43 

 Cornus amomum, (red dogwood) , 47 

 C. asperifolia, see Arrowwood. 

 C. stolonifera, see Redbrush. 

 Coronet, beaded, worn by women, 66 

 Costume, styles of, 156, 160, 163 



chief's, 61 



dancing, vii, 53, 61, 63-64, 79, 80, 

 107, 108, 110, 111, 112, 160, 161, 

 162 



"feather outfit," 64, 65, 66, 160, 161, 

 162 



"straight dance outfit," 62, 65, 66, 

 136, 162 



Sun Dance, 66, 104 



"Woodland type," 61 

 Cotton, 66 



Cottonwood trees, 9, 49 

 Council Bluffs, near the Missouri, 29 

 Council Cove, Kans., 34 

 "Council of seven," meeting of, 93 

 Councils, 33, 59 



meetings of, 59, 91, 92 



Peacemaking, 141 



tribal, 39, 91, 94 

 Coup counting, 107, 126 

 Courting, Indian flute used in, 80, 81, 

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