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THE OSAGE TRIBE. 



[ETH. ANN. 39 



part in the expedition and who successfully return from the darkness 

 of uncertainty into the light of day. The word Ho°'-ba (Day) is 

 used in this stanza as a trope that implies the completion of all the 

 war movement, from the beginning to the end. 



Song 3. 



(Osage version, p. 504; literal translation, p. 622.) 



MM J - 88 Transcribed by Alice C. Fletcher 



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FREE TR.4.NSLATION. 

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They alone, they alone, he he the, 

 They alone, they alone, he he the, 

 Owners of the standards shall sing. 

 Owners of the standards shall sing, 

 They alone, they alone, he he the. 



Owners of the deerskin shall sing, etc. 



3. 

 Owners of the sacred eagle shall sing, etc. 



4. 



Owners of the sacred day shall sing, etc. 



Song 4 has five stanzas. The song is descriptive of the cries of 

 the warriors who, at break of day, with bodies almost nude, plunge 

 into the two great sacred fires and fight with one another for the 



