CORN AND THE BUFFALO. 



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CORN AND THE BUFFALO. 



§ 4'.K (Juni is regunlcd as a "•luotlier" and tin- Iniffalo as a "giaiid- 

 fatber" amoufl" the Omaha aud other tribes.' lu the Osage tradition, 



Vui. 17L' —Kobe of Ki-ifactage. 



corn was be.stowed U|iiin tlic people hy tour liultalo bulls or "grand- 

 fathers." ^ Dr. Wasliington Matthews tells of a sindlar Arikara belief 

 about an ear of corn.'' (See § i'2.) 



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Fig. I7a.— Duba-ma"$i"'s father's ttiit. Flu. 174.— Ma"tcu-na"ba'.s tent. 



OTHEK OMAHA MYSTERY DECORATIONS. 



§ .50. Among the members of the order of Buffalo (j^e i(fa'e(|!6-ma) was 

 Ni^actage, whose robe is shown in Fig. 172. The red band is at the top. 



■See Om. Soc, iu 3(1 Ann. Kept. I?ur. Etbn. ^^123. IfiU. and several myths iii Coutr. to N. A. Ethnol- 

 ogy, vol. VI. 



■■'See Osage Traditions, in 6tb Ann. Kept. Hnr. Ethn., p. 371). 



'tr. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv., Haydeu, Miscell. Publ., No, 7, 1877; Ethnography and Philology of 

 Hidatsa Indians, p. 12. 



