I^FLBSCHE] KITE OF VIGIL — FKEE TRANSLATION, 177 



9. 



I pass from group to group, bearing the sacred paint. 



10. 

 I pass from group to group, bearing tlie sacred standard. 



11. 



Lo, I go to strike, bearing tlie mystic clay, 

 I go to strike, bearing the mystic clay, 

 I go to strike, bearing the mystic pipe. 



12. 



I go to strike, bearing the sacred knife. 



13. 

 I go to strike, bearing the sacred club. 



14. 

 I go to strike, bearing the sacred paint. 



15. 

 I go to strike, bearing the sacred standard. 



16. 



Lo, I go to strike, bearing the mystic clay, 

 I go to strike, bearing the mystic clay, 

 I go to strike, bearing the moccasins. 



The fifth song is a call to the Wa'-do°-be to begin to count his o-do"'. 

 The seven stanzas of the song as here given are intended to include 

 both the seven and six o-do°', the prescribed number that must have 

 been won by a warrior in order to entitle him to be chosen to act as 

 Wa'-do°-be. The seven is for the Ho°'-ga great tribal division and 

 the six for the Tsi'-zhu tribal division. 



In former times when an initiation ceremony was given by a gens 

 of the Ho^'-ga subdivision the Singer (initiate) chose his Wa'-do^-be 

 from the Mi-k'i"' (Sun - carrier) gens of the Tsi'-zhu great tribal 

 division, but since the death of all the warriors eligible for this office 

 in both the Mi-k'i°' and the Tsi'-zhu Wa-no° gentes there remained 

 only one man in all the fsi'-zhu division who could count the full 

 thirteen o-do"'. Sho°'-ge-mo"-i° (PI. 9, B), although the office of his 

 gens (Peace-maker) would, in the ancient days, have precluded his 

 appointment, yet at the present time he was called upon by both the 

 Ho^'-ga and the Wa-zha'-zhe subdivisions to act as Wa'-do°-be when 

 an initiation took place in either of these subdivisions. Sho°'-ge- 

 mo°-i° died in 1919. 



There now remain living in the entire tribe only two old warriors, 

 Ni'-ka-wa-zhi''-to''-ga (PI. 9, A) andKu'-zhi-wa-tse (PI. 7, B), both over 

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