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RITE OF VIGIL FREE TRANSLATION. 



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continuity of that form of animal life upon which the people are 

 dependent for their existence. 



The legs, body, and forelegs of the deer should be mentioned in 

 these two songs, as well as the feet and head, but Wa-xthi'-zhi 

 availed himself of the A'-ki-ho" Xo'-ka's stantUng privilege of 

 omitting the stanzas between the initial and closing stanzas where 

 the songs enumerate the various vital parts of a body. 



The first and third lines of each stanza only are translated, as the 

 other lines are repetitions. 



Song 2. 



(Osage version, p. 412; literal translation, p. 547.) 

 M. M. J r 153 Transcribed hy Alice C. Fletcher 



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FREE TRANSLATION. 

 1. 



To my elder brother, thou with white horns, 



Go running upon thy feet, running upon thy feet. 



2. 



To my elder brother, thou with white horns. 



Go running with thy white horns, running with thy white horns. 



Among the Omaha, a cognate tribe, there is a hi'-go" (myth) that 

 tells of a sister who had the power of calling the animals to her 

 brothers who shot them with their arrows as they ran past. This 

 hi'-go°, it is probal)le, is the vestige of a rite similar to that of the 

 Osage in practice to-day. 



