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Song 3. 

 (Osage version, p. 410; literal translation, p. 546.) 



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FREE TRANSLATION. 



1. 



It is I, the wolf, who feasts upon the fallen foe, 



It is I, the gray wolf, who feasts upon the fallen foe. 



Crow Songs. 



The group next in order is the Ka'-xe Wa-tho°, Crow vSongs. This 

 group of two songs pictures the crow as flying by couples toward the 

 battle field to feast upon the bodies of the slain warriors. The crow 

 songs fittingly follow the wolf songs, as both refer to the same rapa- 

 cious acts that take place soon after a battle has been fought. 



At the dances of the He-thu'-shka societies among the Omaha, the 

 Sioux, and the Osage, some of the warriors, upon whom the honor and 

 the right had been ceremonially conferred, wear upon their hips a 

 decorative badge called Ka'-xe, Crow. To this badge are attached 

 the skin of a crow and the tail of a wolf, as well as two long pendants 

 covered with eagle feathers. (See 27th Ann. Rept. B. A. E., p. 441.) 

 The badge symbolizes the battle scenes of which these wolf and crow 



