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  THE 
  OMAHA 
  TRIBE 
  

  

  [ETH. 
  ANN. 
  27 
  

  

  No 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  We'zhi 
  n 
  shte 
  gens 
  would 
  eat 
  the 
  flesh 
  of 
  the 
  

   male 
  elk 
  or 
  wear 
  moccasins 
  made 
  of 
  its 
  skin, 
  such 
  acts 
  being 
  con- 
  

   sidered 
  sacrilegious 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  service 
  believed 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  rendered 
  the 
  people 
  by 
  that 
  animal. 
  At 
  death 
  moccasins 
  made 
  

   of 
  the 
  skin 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  elk 
  were 
  put 
  on 
  the 
  feet 
  of 
  the 
  departed 
  

   We'zhi 
  n 
  shte, 
  that 
  he 
  might 
  be 
  recognized 
  by 
  his 
  gentile 
  relatives 
  in 
  

   the 
  other 
  world. 
  The 
  boy 
  name 
  Nuga'xti, 
  "the 
  real 
  male," 
  refers 
  

   directly 
  to 
  the 
  tabu 
  of 
  the 
  gens. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  22. 
  Mo"'hi 
  n 
  thi 
  n 
  ge, 
  last 
  keeper 
  of 
  the 
  Tent 
  of 
  War, 
  and 
  his 
  daughter. 
  

  

  Any 
  violation 
  of 
  the 
  tabu 
  of 
  a 
  gens 
  was 
  regarded 
  by 
  the 
  people 
  as 
  

   a 
  sacrilegious 
  act, 
  the 
  punishment 
  of 
  which 
  took 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  

   appearance 
  of 
  sores 
  or 
  white 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  the 
  offender 
  or 
  of 
  

   the 
  hair 
  turning 
  white. 
  

  

  There 
  were 
  no 
  subdivisions 
  in 
  this 
  gens. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  are 
  the 
  names 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  We'zhi 
  n 
  shte 
  gens. 
  

   They 
  are 
  classified 
  as 
  ni'Tcie, 
  "dream," 
  "fanciful," 
  and 
  "borrowed" 
  

   names, 
  and 
  nicknames. 
  The 
  word 
  ni'Tcie 
  has 
  been 
  already 
  translated 
  

   and 
  explained 
  (see 
  p. 
  136); 
  as 
  stated, 
  a 
  ni'Tcie 
  name 
  always 
  referred 
  

   to 
  the 
  rites 
  and 
  tabu 
  of 
  the 
  gens. 
  These 
  names 
  were 
  bestowed 
  on 
  

   the 
  child 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  the 
  rite 
  of 
  initiation 
  into 
  the 
  tribe 
  was 
  per- 
  

   formed. 
  (Seep. 
  121.) 
  The 
  name 
  then 
  given 
  generally 
  clung 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  closely 
  to 
  a 
  man, 
  although 
  later 
  in 
  his 
  career 
  he 
  might 
  take 
  

   another 
  name, 
  either 
  a 
  ni'kie 
  'name 
  or 
  one 
  commemorative 
  of 
  a 
  

   dream, 
  a 
  deed, 
  or 
  an 
  event, 
  or 
  he 
  might 
  have 
  a 
  nickname 
  bestowed 
  

  

  