DOKSEY.] MOON AND STAKS AS WAKANDAS. 379 



man, who bad had .seveial meu as his husbauds. A Pouka chikl ouce 

 said to the author, "Mi"Jiriga-ma uiijiiiga aina ji-gaxe-uaudi, mi"quga, 

 ai," i. e., "If boys make a practice of phiyiug with the girls they be- 

 come (or are called) mi"(iuga." This term may be rendered "hermaph- 

 rodite" when it refers to animals, as ";e mi^quga," a hermaphrodite 

 buflalo. It must have been of this class of persons, called "Mi"-qu- 

 ge" by the Kansa that Say wrote when he said: 



Many of the subjects of it (i. e., sodomy among the Kansa) are publicly known, 

 ami ilo not ajipear to be despised or to excite disgust. One was pointed out to us. 

 He had submitted himself to it in consequence of a vow he had made to his mystic 

 medicine, which obliged him to change his dress for that of a woman, to do their 

 work, and to permit his hair to grow.' 



After giving an account of the Mi°qnga which agrees with what 

 has been written above, Miss Fletclier^ tells of "a man who had the 

 misfortune to be forced to this life and tried to resist. His father gave 

 him a bow and some arrows, but the penalty of his vision so wrought 

 upon his mind that, unable to endure the abnormal life, he committed 

 suicide." (See §§ 212, 353.) 



STARS AS WAKANDAS. 



§ 31. That the Omaha and Ponka regarded the stars as Wakandas 

 seems probable fiom the existence of nikie names and the personal 

 mystery decorations. (See §§ 45, 47, and 52.) There are star names in 

 the Night gens of the Kansa, and they point to the mythical origin ot 

 the gens. The Kansa made oflerings to the morning star. Among the 

 Osage the traditions of the Tsiau Wacta5[e and Bald Eagle people men- 

 tion several Wakandas among the stars. These are as follows: Watse 

 !jui[a, a "grandfather;" Watse mi"i[a, a "grandmother;" Mi"kak'e 

 pe^u"da, the Seven Stars (Pleiades!), a "grandfather;" the constella- 

 tion Ta (fadij'i" or the Three Deer, a "grandfather;" the morning star, 

 Mi^kak'e tarnja (literally, large star), a "grandfather;" the small star, 

 a "grandfather;" the bowl of the Dipper, called "Wadaha fifikce; 

 the Funeral Bier," a "grandfather," and the Female Eed Bird, a 

 "grandmother," the eponym of the Tsiau Wacta}[e or "Eed Eagle" 

 gens. She, too, was probably a star.' 



§32 Ga" edada" (fi"' ct^wa" ('aha"'-na°i ui'aci'"ga ama', dahe' :)aiiga' fi°, 



And what the soever usually Icdiau tlie bill large the 



col. prayed' (to) pi. col. 



ob. ' sub. ob. 



ctewa"'. " Wakan'da bij-u'gaqti wi'ijai a," e'-na"i. " Han, j^an'de niilke' 



soever Wakanda .all I ask a ! they said Ho Ground you who 



favor of usually 



you (pi.) 



c?, ^ja'ci jiu'ga e'ga" a'wita" te' a," at' ui'kaci"'ga ama'. x^ide' ui'ifg 



sit some little so I tread will! say Indians the \Vliem-e the wind 



time on you pi. sub. is sent hither ( ?) 



' James' Account Long's Exped., Phil., vol. i, 1823, p. 129. 



^Eept.Peabody Museum. Vol. ni, p. 281, note. 



= See "Osage Traditions," pp. 384-395, in 6th Ann. Kept. Bur. Ethn. 



