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pieces forming the shelter of the smoke-hole, feathers hang from the 

 two shields, and the stars are above and on the base of the tent skins. 

 Feathers, shields, and stars are also on the back of this tent. 



Fig. 180 is the tent of a man who has danced the pipe dance four 

 times. It is very probable, Judging from the stars on the teuts, that 



Fig. ny.— Kansa decorated tent. 



Fig. IttU.— Kausa decorated tent. 



the owners of the second and third Kansa tents had had visions. The 

 Kansa say that when a man has danced the i)ipe dance twice, his tent 

 can be decorated with two cornstalks at the front (one on each side of 

 the entrance), and two more at the back. The pipes used in the calu- 

 met or pipe dance ai-e regarded as "Wakanda^aiJ'ica"" by the Omaha 



Fig. 181.— Ma°ze-j;uLe s rube. 



and Ponka, and the inference is that the Kansa and Osage had a sim- 

 ilar belief about these pipes and the accompanying dance. Perhaps 

 there was a tUwc when no man could undertake the pipe dance unless 

 he had a vision of some kind. 



