70 



THE OSAGE TRIBE. 



[eth. a;jn. 39 



to the Xo'-ka, who is to impersonate throughout the ceremony not 

 only the symboHc man, but also the smi. Four times the Sho'-ka 

 must proceed to the house of the Xo'-ka and quietly present to him 

 the filled pipe, touching the tobacco with a live brand taken from the 

 fireplace as the Xo'-ka smokes. At the fourth time the Singer, the 

 A'-ki-ho" Xo'-ka, and the No"'-ho"-zhi"-ga members of their gens 

 follow the Sho'-ka to the house of the Xo'-ka, where the Sho'-ka carries 

 the symbolic articles to be worn by the Xo'-ka as his sacerdotal attire. 

 When all fom- men have entered and taken their seats at the eastern 

 end of the house, and the Xo'-ka has concluded his fourth ceremonial 

 smoke, the A'-ki-ho° Xo'-ka sings the following song. Each one of 

 the four stanzas is followed by a section of a wi'-gi-e. Both the song 

 and the wi'-gi-e refer to the story of the descent of the people from 

 the sky to the earth, as given in the genesis wi'-gi-e of the Puma gens; 

 to their dismay at fintling the earth covered with water, and to their 

 appeals to the water-spider, to the water-beetle, to the white leech, 

 and to the black leech. (See lines 204 to 273, 36th Ann. Kept. 

 B. A. E., pp. 163-165.) In the free translation no attempt is made to 

 give the words of the song the anetrical form used in the original. 



M.M 



.J 



Ki'-NON Song and Wi'-gie. 



(Osage version, p. 387: literal translation, p. 527.) 



Transcribed by Alice C.Fletcher 





■,fime beats f '11 'rrr 



Mo"-thin-ka gi a bi the, Mo"-thi"-ka gi a bi the 





^=F 



^m 



A J. * d d. d 



r r r r r 



r r 



r 



r 



he the he the, Tse - xo-be'go" e-wo" thi" a-do", 



r - r 7 r 



Wi-tsi-gogiabithe 



he the,Mon.thi".kagi a bi 



r r f 



the he the. 



FREE TRANSLATION. 

 1. 



The earth shall appear, it was said. 



The earth shall appear, it was said, 



Through the powers of the spider-like (water-spider), 



My grandfather, it shall appear, it was said, 



The earth shall appear, it was said. 



