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ever powers the Creator put in your control. That with which you 

 blessed grandfather it is said you would give us, too, when in the 

 course of time we would pray to you to bestow them upon us. So it 

 is reported our grandfather Djoben^giwi'rjxga said. A handful of 

 tobacco we place for you in the fire. You would smoke it, it is said 

 that you, yourself, told grandfather. Tobacco, you told him you 

 would always accept, it is said. Here it is, the tobacco." 



He pours tobacco into the fire. 



"If 3'ou smoke the tobacco for us, war powers and happiness in 

 life we will ask of you. Soup, vegetables, rice, and maple sugar we 

 send out to you, and buckskin for moccasins likewise. If you accept 

 these things from us, it will be ours to use, war power and life. That 

 we ask of you, grandmother." 



Host's offering to the chief of the Eagles. — "Chief of the Eagles, j'ou 

 who walk on light " up above. You, yourself, said that only you are 

 the greatest one in control of war powers. That you are thus, you 

 said of yourself. Life also you are in charge of. You blessed our 

 grandfather Djobens^giwi'Tjxga with whatever powers the Creator 

 put you in control. You blessed grandfather for all eternity,'^ and 

 for those powers we are now about to offer you tobacco. It is for 

 that purpose you told grandfather we should have a tobacco pouring. 

 So grandfather told us, it is said. Grandfather also made a sacred 

 bundle *° and to this you also added your power, grandfather said, it is 

 said. The tobacco, here it is." 



He pours tobacco into the fire. 



"To you, chief of the Eagles, grandfather, do we pour tobacco. 

 With whatever you blessed grandfather, that we ask of you. All 

 the members of the clan ofi'er you tobacco that you may have knowl- 

 edge of it (i. e., the tobacco) and bestow upon us who dwell on the 

 earth war powers and life. That is what we ask of you, grandfather." 



Hcst's offering to the Day. — "To the Day*' I pour tobacco, also 

 soup, and a rib of a white-haired animal (i. e., a deer). A sacred meal 

 we are about to offer to you. Grandfather Djobens^giwi'yjxga you 

 blessed and you also added your thoughts," it is said. If you accept 

 tobacco and the feast, war powers and life we assuredly are going to 

 obtain. For that we ask, grandfather." 



** "H^bamani' pa," is the ritualistic name for any bird. Although rarely used except in rituals, it is yet 

 generally laio\vn among the people, a fact that does not hold for most of the other ritualistic appellations. 



*5 The set phrase which from now on we will translate by "eternity," is literally "as long as the earth 

 lasts, that long." 



« "Waxop'i' niwan^fi'rusgi'tcgi" means literally, "He tied up the spirit mind or manifestation," i. e., 

 he made a bundle of the blessings he received from the various spirits. DjobenaqgiwiVjXga is the indi- 

 vidual who is supposed to have first received the clan bundle. The word "wan^'l" is a very difficult 

 one to render accurately in English. 



" Although, according to the Winnebago conception, the light of day is associated with the sun, yet the 

 sun is not regarded as causing the light any more than the absence of the sun is thought to Vie the cause 

 of darkness, but both light (daylight) and darkness are associated with special deities. 



« " Wiwe'wj " is not to be thought of in an abstract sense but as something quite as tangible as a material 

 object. 



