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THE OSAGE TRIBE. 



[BTH. ANN. 39 



5. 



My head, that contains my thoughts, I value. 



6. 



My mouth, by which I express my thoughts, I value. 



Sun or Pipe Offering Songs. 



The group of three songs next in order is entitled Mi Wa-tho°, Sun 

 Songs, or No°-ni'-o°-ba Ba-ha Wa-tho°, Pipe Offering Songs. The 

 songs refer to the supplications of the Do-do°'-ho"-ga to the God of 

 Day, the Sun. The first song of the group pictures the Do-do°'-hn"-ga 

 standing alone in the darkness of early dawn in silent contemplation 

 upon the approach of the sun, to whom he is to make his appeal with 

 the hope that the power abiding therein will look with favor upon the 

 little pipe with which he is to ofl'er his petition ; upon the weapons of 

 the warrior, the knife, the war club, the bow, and the arrow with 

 which he hopes to destroy his enemies; upon the trophies, the spoils 

 wliich he wishes to gain without loss to himself, and finally upon the 

 time when he shall retm-n successfully to his people as from the dark- 

 ness of uncertainty into the reality of the day of life and joy. 



There are eight stanzas of six lines each to this song. It will be 

 sufficient to translate the first, third, and fourth lines of each stanza, 

 as the second, fifth, and sixth are repetitions of the first line. 



Song 1. 



(Osage version, p. 407; literal translation, p. 544.) 

 M.M.J r 160 Transcribed by Alice C.Fletcher 



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