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Ka"ze men, say one over 4 feet higli, is chosen for the purpose, aud 

 l)ainte(l with red ])aiut (I'gauia." jii'dje i'kik'ri"'kiya'bo au). The youth 

 rolls over and over in the snow and reddens it for some distance all 

 around him. This is supposed to stop the storm. 



GOVERNMENTAL INSTRUMENTALITIES. 



§ 50. Among the Omaha governmental instrumentalities which are 

 " Wakandajafica"" are the chiefs, the keepers of the three sacred tents, 

 the keepers of the sacred pipes, the gentes, sub-gentes, and taboos, 

 none of which can be regarded as fetiches, and the following which ap- 

 pear to be fetiches : The sacred pipes (including the war pipes of the Elk 

 gens, the two peace pipes kept by the liike-sabe gens, the mystei'ious 

 objects kejit by the "keepers of the pipes" in the (fatada, ;5Ya"ze, Ma"- 

 (('ifika gaxe, jje-sinde, x^'^^i; ^^^ Ictasanda geutes, and the weawa" or 

 pij>es used in the calumet dance), the sacred pole, the sacred hide of a 

 white buffalo, the sacred arrows of divination, and the sacred clam shell 

 of the Elk gens.' 



iS 57. OMAHA AND PONlvA TABOOS. 



Buffalo skull not touched by — 



1. j^e d<\ it'ajl sub-geus of (|!atada (Omaha). 



'2. Wafigije sub-gens of Inke-sabc (Om.). 



3. j^e-sinde gens (Om.). 



i. Part of the Wacabe gens (Ponka). 



f). Part of Necta gens (P.). 

 Buffalo tongue not eaten by — 



1. Wafigije sub-geus of Inke-sabc (Om.). 



2. Hafigaqti or Wacabe sub-gens of Hanga (Om.). 



3. Part of Nikadaona gens (P.). 

 i. Part of Wacabe gens (P.). 



5. Part of Necta gens (P.). 



Buffalo (black) horns not touched by part of liike-sabe gens (Om.). 



Buffalo sides (when consecrated), not eaten by xa waqubc (fatajT sub- 

 gens of Haiiga gens (Om.). 



Buffalo rib (lowest one, !je(fi;-ucagf e), not eaten by j,e-sinde gens (Om.). 



Buffalo and domestic calf not eaten when the hair is red, but can be 

 eaten when the hair turns black, by j^e-sinde gens (Om.). 



Buffalo calf can not be touched, when its hair is "zi" (yellow or red), by 

 a sub-gens of the Necta gens (P.). 



Buffalo calf can not be eaten at any time by — 



1. Ing({'e-jide gens (Om.). 



2. Part of Wacabe gens (P.). 



3. Part of Necta gens (P.). 



' See pp. 221-251 and Chap, xi of Om.alm Sociiilogy, iu 3il Aun. Kept. Bur. Ethn. 



