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THE OSAGE TKIBE. 



[BTH. ANN. 39 



It appears that the Footsteps Wi'-gi-e is an epitome of the story of 

 the finding of the foe, given in lines 1447 to 1542 of the Ni'-ki Wi'-gi-e 

 of tlie I"-gtho°'-ga gens. (See 36th Ann. Kept. B. A. E., p. 208.) 

 The No'''-ho°-zhi°-ga of this gens leave the story unfinished because 

 the right to recite it A\ith all its details belongs to another gens. The 

 Wi'-gi-e of the Finding of the Foe is given in full in the Thirty-sixth 

 Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, pages 212 to 

 219. The Footsteps Wi'-gi-e as given by the various gentes is sub- 

 stantially the same, but some refer to four bends of a river as the 

 objects of approach while others refer to four valleys as ■well as four 

 bends of a river. All, however, refer to the "Little House" as the 

 real object of approach, the place where all must go to make their 

 warhke movements authoritative. 



SONG OF APPROACH TO THE HOUSE. 



( Osage Tersion, p. 390; literal translation, p. 561.) 



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FREE TRANSLATION. 



It is to a Sacred House that I am going, 



It is to a Sacred House that I am going, 



It is to a Sacred House that I am going, 



It is there that I am going. 



It is to the House of the Ho'''-ga that I am going, 



To the House wliere they dwell I am going. 



To the House where they dwell I am going. 



