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of the two leaders of the order of Thuuder shamans (lugf a" ifa'e^e-ma) 

 but also a member of the orders of Buffalo and Grizzly Bear shaniaus 

 (xe ifa'e^e ma ami Ma"tcu ifa'e((;e-ma). (See PI. XLiv, d, in which a 

 grizzly bear is depicted as emerging from his den. The blue part repre- 

 sents the gr(mnd.) 



This decoration (of the tent of Two Crows' father) is thus described 

 by (xeorge Miller: Ma"tcu i(j'a'e(J;ai ega"' :;i tfi ega° giixai. Ma"tcu 



Grizzly bear tliey liave as tent the ao they luiike Grizzly 

 visions of it 8td. oh. it hear 



wada"'bai te'di ^an'de ke ma"'ta<>a 6^a°be ti wada"'bai, ga"' ega" 



they see them when ground the within emerging come they see them antl so 



Ig. oh. 



giixai ^i t?. j^au'de kg (ju(fe-na"'i, ji bebe ke zii^'c-na^'i." That is, 



they tent the Ground the they usually tent part the they usually 

 make it aid. Ig. oh. paint lilue Ig. oh. paint yellow, 



oh. 



"When they have had visions of grizzly bears, tbey decorate their 

 tents accordingly. When they see grizzly bears, they behold them 



Fig. 177.— Tent of x<^'''''a- Fig. 178 Tent of a Kansa who had an eagle vision. 



coming out of the ground, and so they paint the tents. They always 

 (or usually) paint the ground blue, and part of the tent they ijaint in 

 a yellow band." This shows the conventional use of colors. See PI. 

 XLIV, E, for the sketch of another tent representing the vision of a grizzly 

 bear. 



KANSA MYSTERY DF.CORATION.S. 



§ 52. Three Kansa decorations follow. They are taken from an 

 original sketch made by a Kansa man, known to the white people as 

 Stephen Stubbs. The first tent (Fig. 178) is that of a man who had 

 fasted and held mysterious communication with an eagle which gave 

 him some feathers. He had danced the ])ipe dance once for some one. 

 At the base of this tent are seen two peace pipes on each side of the 

 entrance. At the back are a black bear and a large turtle. The 

 second tent (Fig. 179) is tliat of a man who had danced the jiipe dance 

 three times. Buffalo tails are fastened to the tops of the triangular 



