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THE OSAGE TKIBE. 



tUTH. ANN. 39 



Song 2. 

 (Osage version, p, 493; literal translation, p. 615.) 

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FREE TRANSLATION. 

 1. 



Ho! ask 36 for aid, ask for aid, 



To the crow, tiie arrow, ask ye for aid, ask for aid. 



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To the hawk, the arrow, ask ye for aid, ask for aid. 



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 To the arrow itself ask ye for aid, ask for aid. 



4. 

 To the arrow I send forth ask ye for aid, ask for aid , 



5. 

 To my grandfather, the mysterious, ask ye for aid, ask for aid. 



In Songs 3 and 4 there is not a single word that suggests its mean- 

 ing, but the old men versed in the rite say that these songs refer to 

 the close of the ceremonial acts performed by the Do-do°'-ho"-ga 

 when the warriors of the two great tribal cUvisions are required, as 

 a last act, to walk, one by one, upon the four bvmehes of grass he 

 had arranged in a line toward the setting sim. 



