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Ma^jiwiijga Yellowdsh-red earth (refers to deposits from iron springs). 



Ma^nuop'aga Second earth person. 



Ni-acgadjewigga She who plays on the water. 



Ni amaniwigga She who walks on the water. 



Ni-a''p"'''wigga She who makes water good. 



Ni-a^dagewigga Still water. 



Nicanaga Stream person. 



Nihuga He who discharges water. 



Ni-ot^^pwigga She who jumps into the water. 



Nidjobega Four streams. 



Niwak'itcaqga Selects (?) water. 



Wakdjexicicika Bad Water-spirit. 



Wakdjexihuijga Chief of the Water-spirits. 



Wakdjeximaniga Walking Water-spirit. 



Wakdjexip'iijga Good Water-spirit. 



Wakdjexisa^wigga White Water-spirit. 



Hep'igga Good horn. 



Wadjxedega Big boat. 



Hip'ahiga Sharp tooth. 



Rabawigga Beaverskin woman. 



Rabewigga Beaver. 



Hejipga Short horn. 



The Buffalo Clan 



introduction 



The first version of tlie origin myth of the Buffalo clan is of con- 

 siderable interest because it gives us an idea of the manner in which 

 a myth had to be bought. It is one of the few origin myths that 

 gives a precise location for the origin of a particular clan. What 

 lake is meant by de ddk it is impossible to say. Considerable 

 importance should be attached, however, to the fact that their 

 place of origin differed frorn that of most of the other clans, because 

 it may indicate that the people who came to be known under the 

 name Buffalo joined the tribe after the other clans. 



The Buffalo clansmen seem to have had the function of acting as 

 the public criers and in general of being an intermediary between the 

 chief and the tribe. This, however, has been denied by some in- 

 formants, one of them a member of the clan. Their lodge was at 

 the southeast corner of the village. Some informants deny that 

 they had a special lodge, however. 



Tlie Buffalo and Water-spirit clans are friends and are supposed 

 to bury each other's members. 



ORIGIN MYTH-' 



Informant, member of the clan: "Listen, my grandson. Those 

 who originated from the buffaloes and the way in which they origi- 



21 The following myth is given in the precise manner in which tlie individual who told it to me obtained 

 the information from one of the old men who was privileged to narrate it. Unfortunately it was impos- 

 sible to obtain any other clan origin myth in the same way. 



