LA PLESCHE] TRIBAL RITES FREE TRANSLATION 121 



65. The male star, who sitteth in the heavens, 



66. I have made that bird to symbohze. 



67. When the little ones make of me their bodies, 



68. Tiiey shall alwaj^s find a plentifid supply of the earth's riches. 



69. Wtien they go toward the setting sun against their enemies, 



70. Taking with them the bird as a symbol through which to offer 



their supphcations, 



71. They shall never fail to succeed as they travel the path of life. 



72. The female star, who sitteth in the heavens, 



73. I have caused that bird to sjTnbolize. 



74. When the little ones go toward the setting sun against their 



enemies, 



75. Taking with them the bird as a symbol through which to offer 



their supplications, 



76. They shall never fail to succeed as they travel the path of hfe, 



77. They shall always find a plentiful supply of the earth's riches. 



78. When the little ones make of me their bodies, 



79. They shall enable themselves to live to see old age as they travel 



the path of life; 



80. The four great divisions of the days 



81. They shall enable themselves to reach and enter. 



82. When the people of the Wa-zha'-zhe 



83. And those of the Ho°'-ga 



84. Make of me their symbol throughout their life's journey, 



85. Thej' shall never fail to succeed as they travel the path of life. 



The Tse-do'-ga I'^-dse Gens 



The presence of the Tse-do'-ga I°-dse (Buffalo-face Gens) (pi. 13, c) 

 is necessary in tliis ceremony in order to complete the tableau of the 

 sky, the great bodies that move therein, and the animal life in the 

 earth to whicli thej' are related. This gens occupies the second place 

 in the ceremonial order of the gentes composing the Tsi'-zhu division, 

 but, as in the case of the Wa-ke'-stse-dse (Cat-tail) gens (see p. 93), 

 its members remain silent throughout the ceremony. The head of 

 the gens, however, is given a fee for his services, and the members 

 share in the distribution of the provisions provided by the candidate. 



The office of this gens in certain degrees of the war rites is to per- 

 form the ceremony of cutting mto shape the symbolic buffalo-skin 

 moccasins to be worn by the Xo'-ka and the Sho'-ka and to recite 

 the wi'-gi-e relating to the moccasins. 



