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A STUDY OF SIOUAN CULTS. 



face painted red, green, and white." (Did the four colors refer to the 

 elements?) "As I started toward him he said, 'Winona,' approach me 

 on the left side and shake my left hand with your left hand.'" (Does 

 the gens of Sitting Bull camp on the left side of the tribal circle, 

 occasioning the use of the left in all ceremonies, as among the Tsiou 

 gentes of the Osage? Or is the left the war side among the people of 

 Sitting Bull, as among the Kansa? See §§ 33 and 368.) 



§ 380. The following are the symbolic colors of the North Carolina 

 Cherokee, the Ojibwa, the Navajo, the Apache, the Zuiii, and the 

 Aztec : 



a Sluoney, in Jour. Am. Folklore, Vol. Ill, No. 8, Jan.-M;ir., 1890, pp. 49, 50. 



b HotFman, in Am. Anthropologist, July, 1889, pp. 217,218; from Sicosige, a second-degree Mide 

 of White Earth. Minn. 



e Hoffman, in ibid., p. 218; from Ojibwa, a fourth-degree Mide, from another locality. 



d Matthews, in 5th An. Rept. Bur. Eth., p. 449. 



e Mallery, from Thos. V. Ream's catalogue of relics of the ancient buildiug.s of the southwest 

 table-lands — quoted in Trau.s. Anthrop. Soc. of Washington, Vol. in, 141, 1885. 



/ G.itschet, on Chiricahua Apache sun circle, in Trans. Anthrop. Soc. of Washington. Vol. Ill, 

 147, 1885. 



(/ Capt. J. G. Bourke, in a letter to the author, Dec. 4, 1890. In Nov., 1885, he obtained from a 

 San Carlos {Pinal) Apache green as the color for the north. 



h Mrs. M.C.Stevenson, in 5th An. Kept. Bur. Eth., p. 548. According to Dr. J. Walter Fewkes the 

 Hopi or Moki have a similar order of colors, the west having green (or blue). 



i Kingsborough, Antiquities of Mexico, Vol. vil ( /ide Capt. J. G. Bourke). 



According to Gatschet the Chiricahua Ajiache call the sun, when 

 in the east, " the black sun," and a tornado or gust of wind also is called 

 "black." (See §378.) 



JIatthews says that in rare cases white is assigned to the north and 

 black to the east, and that black represents the male and blue the 

 female among the Navajo. (See § 105 of this ])aper.) 



§ 381. The author calls 'special attention to the colors of the four 

 sacred stones of the Omaha Wolf gens, red, black, yellow, and blue 

 i. e., E., S., W., N. ; see § 3G9), and to those on the tent of an Omaha 

 Black Bear man (see § 373, and pl. xliv, e, where the colors are given 

 in the order N., E., S., W.). He has not'yet gained the colors for the 

 upper and lower worlds, though the Omaha ofter the pipe to the " vener- 



• Winona, name of the first child if a daughter, not '* first daughter." 



