LAFLBSCHE] KITE OF VIGIL FEEE TBANSLATION. 301 



Song 7. 

 (Osage version, p. 494; literal translation, p. 616.) 

 M. M. J = 76 Transcribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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Songs of Triumph. 



Wa-tsi'-a-dsi Wa-tho" is the title of the ten Songs of Triumph. 

 Literally translated the words are as follows: Wa-tsi, Triumph; 

 a-dsi, at the; Wa-tho°, Songs. 



As the first song of this group is about to be sung the wife of the 

 Initiate, followed by several of her female relatives and friends, enter 

 the lodge and stand abreast facing the Xo'-ka, the A'-ki-ho" Xo'-ka, 

 and the Initiate, before whom lie scattered the various articles that 

 compose the shrine. When the singing is about to begin the wife of 

 the Initiate picks up the sacred hawk and hangs it upon her back as it. 

 is worn by the commander of a group of warriors about to attack the 

 enemy. The other women distribute among themselves the various 

 sacred articles: the buffalo hair bag; the deerskin bag, and the inner 

 case woven of a particular rush {Eleocharis interstincia) (PI. 5, D). 



This woven rush case, the shrine proper, which is ceremonially 

 made, symbolizes the sky, the earth, and the space between. The 

 space between is where life is said to be conceived throucrh the com- 



