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They ascended from the lowest upper world, on the left, to the high- 

 est. There they obtained human souls in tlie bodies of birds, accord- 

 ing to Sadekif e. 3;ahiiie-wa';ayiiii[a said that tliere they met a male 

 red bird, to whom they appealed for aid. (See p. 383, line 18.) This 

 was distinct from the female Red Bird, who gave them human 

 bodies. They descended to tlie first woi'ld, and from that they trav- 

 eled until tliey alighted on the red oak tree. (See p. 383, line 30.) 

 The ground was covered with grass and other kinds of vegetation. 

 Then the paths of the people separated : some marched on the left, 

 being the peace gentes that could not take life; they subsisted on 

 roots &c. ; while those on the right killed animals. By and by the 

 gentes exchanged commodities. 



The small figures on the left, in going from the tree (on the right 

 when facing the tree), show the heavenly bodies or beings to whom 

 the Black Bear went for help, and those on the right, in going from 

 the tree (on the left when facing the top of the chart), show similar 

 bodies or beings to whom the Waoaoe or war gentes applied for as- 

 sistance. These are unknown to the members of the Tsiou gentes. 

 After the female red bird gave bodies to the Tsfou people, the Black 

 Bear found seven skins, which were used for tents. Subsequently 

 the people discovered four kinds of rocks, which were the I^'qS sdde, 

 or black rock; I°'q6 tuhu,' or blue (green?) rock; P'qg oii^jse, or red 

 rock; and I^'qg skS, or white rock. Therefore, when a child is named, 

 four stones are heated for the sweat bath. After finding the rocks, 

 according to 3ahi5[e-wa^ayin5[a, four biiifalo bulls approached the 

 people, as one of the men was returning to the company. Wlien the 

 first bull arose after rolling on the ground, an ear of red corn and a 

 red pumpkin fell from his left hind leg. The leader of the Tsiou 

 wactaj[e noticed them, and asked his younger brother to pick them up 

 and taste them. The leader of the Bald Eagle subgens did so. Then 

 the elder brother said: "These will be good for the children to eat. 

 Their limbs will stretch and increase in strength. " When the second 

 bull arose after rolling, an ear of spotted corn and a spotted pumpkin 

 dropped from his left hind leg. These, too, were tasted and declared 

 good for the children. When the third bull arose after rolling, an 

 ear of dark corn and a dark (black?) pumpkin dropped from his left 

 hind leg. From the left hind leg of the fourth buffalo dropped an 

 ear of white corn and a white pumpkin. Therefore, when a child is 

 named in the Tsiou gens (alone?) the head man of that gens (3;ahii^e- 

 wa^ayinJia himself, according to his statement) takes a grain of each 

 kind of corn and a slice of each variety of pumpkin, which he puts into 

 the mouth of the infant. Hada-oiii^se knew that the four kinds of 



' The sound of this inverted u, between o and u, as well as the sounds of other 

 letters used in this article, except that of the inverted q (which is a sound approxi 

 mating ch in the German word ich), is to be found on page 306, Third Ann ual Re- 

 port of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



