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[Bull. 195] 



Slide, German-silver, 63 



Sloughgrass, used for thatch, 56 



Smith, Leonard, informant, 53, 73, 112, 



118, 130, 137 

 Smoke curing, 152 



Smoke Maker, Ponca chief, 22, 27, 30 

 Smoking, 47 



See also Cigarettes ; Tobacco. 

 Smoothers, sliaft, 12 



Smudge, cedar needle, used for fumi- 

 gating, 107 

 Snake, Andrew, Southern Ponca Indian, 



45, 80, 140, 157 

 Snake, Henrv, Ponca Indian, 115, 116, 



118, 157 

 Snakebird, 123 

 Snakes, 8 (list) 

 Snaths, 32 

 Snow, 75 



Snow blindness, prevention of, 41 

 Snowfall, 8 

 Soap substitute, 69, 70 

 Soapweed, 20, 54 

 Societies : 



age-grading in, 110 



Bear Doctor, 117, 118, 119 



Big-belly, 112, 137 



Buffalo Doctor's, 117, 118, 119 



Bulls warrior, 112 



Dddure. Ill, 112 



Dakota No-flight, 111 



Gafana, 113 



Gaxexc, see Iskdiyulia. 



Hediiska, 97, 107, 111, 155 



Iskdiyuha Warrior, 68, 110, 111, 

 112, 113, 115, 136 



Make-no-flight, 110, 111, 136 



"Mandan" warrior, 110 



Maicddani, 110, 111, 140 



Medicine Lodge, 62, 77, 84, 119, 120, 

 156 



Mescal Bean, 122 (flg.) 



Midcioiwin, 60, 119 



military, 156 



Night-dance, 61, 98 



No-flight dancing, 111 



Omaha shell, 119 



Pebble Medicine Lodge, 60, 98, 119, 

 121 



Ponca War Mothers, 113 



Ponca Medicine Lodge, 77 



secret, 97 



Strong-heart dancing. 111 



"Thunder," 124 



Warrior, 50, 55. 68, 105, 106, 107, 110 



warrior's dancing, 110, 111, 136 



women's dancing, 113 

 Solar eclipse, beliefs regarding. 75 

 "Soldier" police, see Buffalo-police. 

 Solomon, Ponca interpreter. 22 

 Songs, 81 (list) 



brave heart, sung by women, 81 



ceremonial, 101, 110, 123 



dance, 50, 81, 163 



give-away. 111 



hand game, 81, 129 



Ee4Mka, 98, 107, 140, 160 



Songs — Continued 



medicine, 81, 128 



moccasin game, 81 



mourning, 81, 155 



Peyote, 81, 97, 125 



round dance, 114 



secret society, 97 



"War journey," 116 

 Sons, 17, 18, 30, 36, 97 



adopted, treatment of, 83 



power received by, 149 

 Sophora secundiflora, 121 

 Sororal nephews and nieces, 82 

 Soul, 153, 154, 155 

 South Dakota, v, viii, 5, 7, 10, 12, 49, 71, 



96, 131, 132 

 Southeast, 3, 4, 8, 12, 14, 15 

 Spearmen, obligations of, 136 

 Spears, 43, 51, 55 

 Spiderbean pods, 145 

 Spirit helper, 146, 154 

 Spirits, belief in. 99, 153, 154 

 Spirit World, 154, 155 

 Spoons, 46, 53 



Spot-stitch, used in beadwork, 161 

 Spreaders, bone. 53, 62 

 Springfield, S. Dak., 18 

 "Square braid" technique, 68 

 Squash, 3, 44, 45, 46 

 Squatters, White, 31 

 Staff, ornamental, 40, 51, 80 

 Stairway, earth or logs, 1 

 Stakes, wooden, 57 



Standing Bear, Luther, Ponca chief, 22, 

 29, 34, 36, 37, 70, 71, 76, 148, 158 



speech by, 36, 38 



son of, 36, 37 



versus George Crook, lawsuit, 22, 

 36-37 

 Star, 74, 75 



North, 75 

 Starvation, threat of, 26, 30 

 Statesmen, 92 



Status position, "ascribed," 81 

 Stick, game, 126, 129, 133 



willow, 129 



wooden, used as fork, 47 

 Stickney, William, 37 

 Stirrups, bent wood sewn in rawhide, 



49 

 Stockade, construction of, 11 

 Stones, 54, 121 

 Storehouse, goods stolen from by Ponca 



Indians, 31 

 Stories, war and hunting, 50 

 Storms, 75, 76, 124 

 Stoves, 58 



Strawberries, wild. 44 

 Strings, buckskin, 68 

 Strong, William Duncan, 14 

 Strouds, 28 

 Subclan, 15, 86, 87, 90 

 Subgentes, 87, 89, 91 

 Snde-gaxe (Smoke-maker), 27 

 Sugar, 44 

 Sumac, added to tobacco, 47 



