I-AFLKSCHE] Nl'-KI NON-k'Qn RITE 211 



1533. Has traveled to four valleys in the far-off lands, O, Wa-zha'-zhe. 



1534. In the fourth valley 



1535. He beheld seven bends of a great river 



1536. Enwrapped in a cloud of white smoke from many fires. 



1537. Seven villages he saw among the seven bends of the river 



1538. Enwrappetl in a cloud of white smoke from many fires. 



1539. Very closely he watched the people 



1540. And saw the tattoo marks upon their foreheads, 



1541. The tattoo marks upon their jaws, 



1542. Saw that they wore the hair of their foreheads cut short. 



The Hi'^a-da Story of the Finding of the Foe 



The preceding mythical story (Imes 1447 to 1542) ends abruptly, 

 leaving the impression that an essential part of the story has been 

 omitted. This impression might have remained but for a casual 

 question asked of Wa-tse'-mo°-i° in May, 1916, relating to the 

 significance of the leg of an eagle attached to the suspentling strap 

 of the portable shrine belonging to each gens of the tribe. (See 

 pi. 4, b.) The question had been asked without a thought that the 

 reply might have a bearing upon the story of the finding of the 

 foe, which is necessary to the completion of the original war rite 

 which forms the concludmg part of the Ni'-ki Wa-tho° ritual. 

 Wa-tse'-mo°-i° said in reply: "The Hi'-^a-da put the eagle's leg on 

 the wa-xo'-be as a memorial of their finding of the foe, a service 

 performed by a member of the gens chosen for that purpose and to 

 act as an official messenger." Wa-tse'-mo°-i° made it clear that the 

 full story of the fhiding of the foe is the exclusive property of the 

 Hi'-^a-da gens. The In-gtho°'-ga and other gentes of the Ho'^'-ga 

 subdivision were permitted to use it in an epitomized form in order 

 to complete their own version of the ritual. Thus was explained the 

 reason for the abrupt ending of the story as given by Wa-xthi'-zhi. 

 The literal translation of Hi'-^a-da is "Leg-outstretched," a name 

 referring directly to the eagle leg attached to each wa-xo'-be belong- 

 ing to the various gentes of the tribe. The Hi'-^a-da is a subgens 

 of the Ho^'-ga A-hiu-to° gens which has for its gentile life symbol the 

 dark-plumaged golden eagle. The name Ho°'-ga signifies the Sacred 

 or Consecrated One. 



"Wa-tse'-mo°-i°, whose gens is closely related to the I°-gtho°'-ga, 

 hesitated for some time before he made up his mind to give the 

 wi'-gi-e of the Hi'-pa-da geiis which tells of the Finding of the Foe. 

 He justifies his final decision upon the facts that he belonged to the 

 division that originated the story and that, owing to the present 

 inevitable changes, these great tribal rites have now practically come 

 to their end. 



