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  TRIBAL 
  OKGANTZATION 
  171 
  

  

  Names 
  unclassified 
  as 
  to 
  subgentt 
  s 
  

  

  Xi 
  kit 
  names 
  

  

  Heba'dizho 
  n 
  Heba'di, 
  half 
  : 
  zho 
  n 
  , 
  sleep. 
  Sleeps 
  halfway. 
  

  

  ■ 
  Ko 
  n 
  cegahige 
  Ko^ee, 
  Kansa 
  chief. 
  

  

  Ko"'oezhi 
  n 
  ga 
  Little 
  hon'ce. 
  

  

  No 
  n/ 
  dethi 
  n 
  ge 
  A'o"de, 
  heart; 
  thiitge, 
  n.it 
  any. 
  

  

  Pahi'thagthi" 
  Good 
  hair. 
  

  

  Pa'nuhu. 
  Owl. 
  

  

  Tade'ta 
  To 
  the 
  wind. 
  Also 
  in 
  fake'cabe 
  ritual 
  of 
  hair 
  cutting. 
  

  

  Tade'uVa 
  Taele', 
  wind 
  ; 
  ie"rn 
  , 
  swift 
  . 
  

  

  Waba'shetho" 
  Meaning 
  uncertain. 
  

  

  Wate'wahi 
  Meaning 
  uncertain. 
  

  

  Xage'wathe 
  One 
  who 
  causes 
  weeping. 
  

  

  Zhega'no"ba 
  Zhega, 
  legs; 
  no^ba, 
  two. 
  

  

  Ft 
  malt 
  names 
  

  

  Tade'wahage 
  Meaning 
  uncertain. 
  

  

  F*SHTA/gU 
  N 
  DA 
  DIVISION, 
  REPRESENTING 
  THE 
  SKY 
  PEOPLE 
  (A) 
  

   Mo 
  k 
  'thi 
  n 
  kagaxe 
  Gens 
  (6) 
  

  

  The 
  significance 
  of 
  this 
  name 
  (n>o"t]ii"L<i 
  , 
  "earth;" 
  gaxe, 
  ''to 
  make") 
  

   is 
  somewhat 
  obscure, 
  but 
  the 
  rites 
  committed 
  to 
  this 
  gens 
  seem 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  rock 
  or 
  stone 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  gray 
  wolf. 
  

   What 
  these 
  rites 
  were 
  is 
  not 
  now 
  known. 
  They 
  have 
  long 
  since 
  fallen 
  

   into 
  disuse 
  and 
  become 
  lost. 
  In 
  myths 
  that 
  deal 
  with 
  the 
  creation 
  of 
  

   theearth, 
  with 
  the 
  contention 
  of 
  managainst 
  strange 
  monsters 
  that 
  con- 
  

   trolled 
  the 
  animals, 
  with 
  the 
  interdependence 
  of 
  various 
  forms 
  of 
  life, 
  

   and 
  with 
  the 
  persistent 
  mystery 
  of 
  death 
  we 
  find 
  the 
  idea 
  of 
  perma- 
  

   nence, 
  of 
  length 
  of 
  days, 
  of 
  wisdom 
  acquired 
  by 
  age, 
  to 
  be 
  symbolized 
  

   by 
  the 
  rock 
  or 
  stone 
  ; 
  while 
  man's 
  restlessness, 
  his 
  questionings 
  of 
  fate, 
  

   his 
  destructiveness, 
  are 
  frequently 
  symbolized 
  by 
  the 
  wolf. 
  These 
  

   two, 
  the 
  rock 
  or 
  stone 
  and 
  the 
  gray 
  wolf, 
  are 
  in 
  myths 
  represented 
  as 
  

   brothers 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  ancient 
  rites 
  belonging 
  to 
  this 
  gens 
  they 
  were 
  

   symbolically 
  united, 
  in 
  some 
  way 
  now 
  unknown, 
  a 
  fact 
  that 
  makes 
  it 
  

   not 
  unlikely 
  that 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  gens, 
  "earth 
  makers," 
  preserves 
  the 
  

   purpose 
  of 
  the 
  rites 
  once 
  committed 
  to 
  these 
  people 
  — 
  rites 
  that 
  not 
  

   only 
  dramatized 
  the 
  myth 
  of 
  Creation, 
  but 
  were 
  believed 
  to 
  insure 
  

   the 
  continuance 
  of 
  that 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  created. 
  

  

  According 
  to 
  tradition 
  there 
  were 
  formerly 
  in 
  the 
  keeping 
  of 
  this 
  

   gens 
  four 
  sacred 
  stones, 
  which 
  were 
  painted, 
  respectively, 
  white, 
  

   black, 
  red, 
  and 
  green 
  or 
  blue. 
  These 
  stones 
  were 
  ceremonially 
  placed 
  

   in 
  a 
  circular 
  hole 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  ground, 
  and 
  over 
  them 
  was 
  spread 
  the 
  

   clown 
  of 
  the 
  swan 
  (Ci/gnusamericanus). 
  As 
  late 
  as 
  the 
  last 
  century 
  one 
  

   of 
  these 
  stones 
  was 
  in 
  existence, 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  To 
  n 
  'wo 
  n 
  <raxe. 
  It 
  is 
  

   said 
  that 
  at 
  the 
  meetings 
  of 
  the 
  Pebble 
  society 
  he 
  would 
  "place 
  it 
  on 
  

   the 
  ground 
  and 
  make 
  it 
  w 
  T 
  alk." 
  There 
  is 
  a 
  tradition 
  that 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  