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Chapter III — Continued. Page. 



Other Kansa wakantlas 387 



Omaha invocations of the trap, etc 387 



Fasting 390 



Mystic trees and plants 390 



If-i'efie 392 



Personal mystery decorations 394 



Order of thunder shamans 395 



Generic forms of decoration 397 



Specific forms of decoration 398 



Corn and the buffalo 403 



Other Omaha mystery decorations 403 



Kansa mystery decorations 405 



Omaha nikie decorations 407 



Omaha nikie customs 410 



Governmental instrumentalities 411 



Omaha and Ponka taboos 411 



Fetichism 412 



Fetiches of the tribe and gens 413 



Omaha tribal fetiches 413 



Osage tribal fetiches 414 



Kansa tribal fetiches 415 



Personal fetiches 415 



Sorcery 416 



Jugglery 417 



Omaha and Ponka belief as to a future life 419 



Kansa beliefs respecting death and a future life 421 



Chapter IV.— xciwere and Winnebago cults 423 



Authorities 423 



Term "Great Spirit" never heard among the Iowa 423 



The sun a wakanta 423 



The winds as wakantaB 423 



The thunder-being a wakanta 424 



Subterranean powers 424 



Subaijuatic powers 424 



Animals as wakantas 425 



Apotheoses "125 



Dwellings of gods 425 



Worship 425 



Taboos 42S 



Public or tribal fetiches 427 



Symbolic earth formations of the Winnebago 427 



Personal fetiches 428 



Dancing societies 428 



TheOtter dancing society 42& 



The Red Medicine dancing society 429 



The Green Corn dance •. 429- 



The Bufl'alo dancing society 429 



Xciwerc traditions 430 



Belief in a future life 430 



Chapter V. — Dakota and Assiniboin cults 431 



Alleged Dakota belief in a Great Spirit 431 



Riggs on the Taku wakan 432 



Meaning of wakan 433 



Daimonism • 433- 



