Dr.RSET.] 



THE FOUR QUARTERS. 



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wind was a beiieflceut oue, while the Nortlieast wind was maleficent 

 (§ 74). This variation may have been caused by a difference in the hab- 

 itats of the tribes referred to. 



§ 367. Among the Kausa, raha"le-gaqli and Ali"kawahu, when they 

 invoked the four winds, began at the left (as they were Yata people) 

 with the East wind {Baza"ta, Toward the Pines), next they turned to 

 the South wind (Ak"a, whence one of the names of the Ka"ze gens), then 

 to the West wind (Ak'ajinga or Ak'uye), and lastly to tlie North wind 

 (Hnita, Toward the Cold).' (See Fig. 195.) 



It should be noted that those Kansa war captains, Taha'-legaqli and 

 Ali"kawahu, belong to gentes on the left side of the tribal circle. They 

 were facing the South before they began the invocations to the various 

 powers including the four winds. See § 200 for the order (E, S, 



W, N) observed in felling the tree to be used as a sun pole. 



The same 



w!— 



-Kansa order of invoking the 

 winds, etc. 



FiQ. 196. — TsiDii (Dsa^i-) order of placing the 

 four sticks, etc. 



order was observed by the Dakota "priest" in the ceremonies pertain- 

 ing to the White Buffalo festival of the Huukpapa, as related by Miss 

 Fletcher: in placing cherries on the plate, in pouring water on the piles 

 of cherries, in placing tufts of swan's down on the plate^, in rotating 

 the plate, in circling the heap of black earth', and in giving the four 

 pinches of consecrated meat to the four sons of the owner of the white 

 buffalo hide.* 



§ 3GS. The Tciou old man of the Osage tribe consecrated each mystic 

 hearth by placing four sticks in the form of a cross, beginning at the 

 west, as shown in Fig. 196, then laying the sticks at the north, east, and 

 south, as he named the four mystic buffaloes (§ 33). This Tsiou man 

 belonged to the peace side of his tribe, and he began with the quarters 

 referring to the peace elements. But the Pa"qka old man of the same 

 tribe, when he consecrated the mystic fireplaces for his half-tribe, began 

 on the right, with the stick at the east, as shown in Fig. 197. He 

 belonged to the war side of the tribe, though his gens was a peace- 

 making gens! 



'Am. Naturalist, July, 1885, p. 676. 



'An. Kept. Peabod.v Museum, vol. iil, p. 267. 



3 Ibid. p. 268. 



»Il>id, pp. 272. 273. 



