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Irou Dog. Hermaphrodite Ghost ( ! ) 



Dog Ghost. Iron Kingfisher. 



Bowlder Thunder-Being (E-f F). Cloud Horse. 



Iron Whirlwind. Irou Horse. 



Irou Beaver. Lightning Horse. 



Small-bird Beaver. Earth (or Ground) Horse. 



Irou Owl. Wind Horse. 



Cloud Hail. Fire Horse. 



Irou Cloud. Black-bird Horse. 



Fire Cloud. Small-bird Man (or, Indian; 4th Eth., 



Iron Wind. PI. Liv, No. 28; bird's head and wings 



Stone Ghost. on a man's body). 



Cloud Black-bear. Dog Rattlesnake. 



There are several "Wasicun" names: Cloud Wasicun, Fire Wasi 

 CUD, Night Wasi(juu, and Irou Wasicun. The last one has for its i)icto- 

 graph a man with a hat, i. e., a white man, and can hardly have any 

 mystic significance. The name, Wasicun, originally meant "guardian 

 spirit," but it is now applied to white people (§ 122). In the absence of 

 the pictographs, we can not tell whether Cloud Wa.sicun, Fire Wasi- 

 cun, and Night Wa.sicun refer to guardian spirits (in which case they 

 are mystic names connected with cults) or to white men. 



Most of the above names are taken from the Dakota census lists. 

 The jjOiwere lists furnish only two composite names of this character: 

 Iron Hawk Female, aiid Pigeon Thuuder-being. The Kansa list has 

 Moon Hawk and Moon Hawk Female, the latter name, which is found 

 in the Omaha and Ponka list, suggesting the Egyptian figure of a 

 woman's body with a hawk's head, surmounted by a crescent moon. 

 Horse Eagle appears to be a sort of Pegasus. Bufifalo-buU Eagle may 

 refer to the myth of the Orphan and the Buftalo-woman, in which we 

 learn that the Buffalo people ascended through the air to the upper 

 world.' 



PERSONAL NAMES FROM HORNED BEINGS. 



§ 394. The Dakota lists have several names of horned beings, as fol- 

 lows : Horned Grizzly-bear, Horned Horse (4th Eth., PI. Liv, No. 29, and 

 PI. Lxxi, No. 193), Horned Dog, Horned Eagle, Gray Horned Thunder- 

 Being, Horned Deer, Black Horned Boy, and Snake Horn. No attempt 

 to explain these names has been made. Among the Winnebago, the 

 following names refer to water monsters, and belong to the Waktceqi 

 or Water-monster gens: Horn on one side (equivalent to the Dakota, 

 He-saijnica), Horns on both sides. Two Horns, Four Horns, and Five 

 Horns. 



The Winnebago list has the name Four Women (in one), with which 

 compare what has been said about the Double-Woman (§ 251). 



' Contr. N. A. Etbn., Vol. vi. pp. 142. 146. 



