LA FIJJ8CHE] TRIBAL RITES FREE TRANSLATION 101 



80. He cut down the sapling and dragged it to his house, 



81. Then he spake, saying: When the little ones use this for counting, 



82. They shall always count their o-do"' with accuracy. 



83. The beaver went again against the current and came to the fifth 



bend of the river, 



84. Where stood a sapling of the never-dying willow. 



85. He cut down the sapling and dragged it to his house, 



86. Then he spake, saying: When the little ones use this for counting, 



87. They shall always count their o-do°' with accuracy. 



88. The beaver went again against the current and came to the sixth 



bend of the river, 



89. Where stood a sapling of the never-dying willow. 



90. He cut down the sapling and dragged it to his house, 



91. Then he spake, saying: When the little ones use this for counting, 



92. They shall always count their o-do"' with accuracy. 



93. The beaver went again against the current and came to the 



seventh bend of the river, 



94. Where stood a sapling of the never-dying willow. 



95. He cut down the sapling and dragged it to his house, 



96. Then he spake, saying: This also the little ones shall use. 



97. When the little ones use this for counting, 



98. They shall always count their o-do°' with accuracy. 



In bringing this wi'-gi-e to a close, Wa-xthi'-zhi remarked that he 

 omitted the section relating to the six willow saplings for counting 

 o-do°', it being the practice of the No°'-ho°-zhi°-ga to omit it when 

 giving this ritual. It seems that where a practice of this kind is 

 estabhshed it is not necessary to ask the customary permission to make 

 such omission. The candidate or his relatives may, however, insist 

 upon the reciting of the wi'-gi-es without any omissions, although 

 the lines may be merely tiresome repetitions. Wa-xthi'-zlii remarked, 

 further, that to recite the section relating to the six willow saplings 

 would be a repetition of the fii"st six lines, word for word, of the 

 section relating to the seven willow saplings. Wa-tse'-mo°-i°, of the 

 Black Bear gens, gave the willow sapling wi'-gi-e in full. It is 

 included in the description of the No°'-zhi°-zho° degree of the war 

 rite, to appear in a later volume. 



The Ga-tsiu' Gens 



According to Wa-xthi'-zhi, this gens has no gentile symbol of its 

 own; nevertheless it is given a place in this ceremony as a we'-ga-xe 

 and counted as the seventh gens of the Wa-zha'-zhe subdivision, 



