BADiN] THE CLAN WAE-BUNDLE FEASTS 503 



Offering to the Moon. — "This we ask, grandmother, of you also. 

 You added your power to (the other blessings) of grandfather 

 Djoben^jjgiwi'yjxga and you said that as long as the world lasts you 

 would willingly accept the offerings of tobacco that his posterity 

 extended to you. Thus you yourself said, we are told. Here is the 

 tobacco. 



"As many of our clansmen as are here living in an abject condition 

 (spiritually), may they all follow in the direct path of war. For 

 that we are now extending to you tobacco, food, and moccasins. 

 And may we in the future travel in the path of war and life." 



Offering to the Water. — "You likewise. Chief of the Water, whose 

 body is water, blessed grandfather Dj6ben£ir;giwi'j;xga. Here it is 

 (the tobacco). If we poured tobacco into the fire, you said 30U 

 would always smoke it, it is said. Food and buckskin for moccasins 

 we are about to extend to you. War powers and life, that we ask 

 from you in return, for you said that you would always accept (oxrr 

 offerings), we are told. When you blessed grandfather Djoben^?;- 

 giwi'Tjxga you said that we should pour tobacco for you at all times, 

 it is said. Here it is. 



"You would recognize the offering of tobacco and the tobacco 

 with the food that we sent forth to you, you said, it is said. We 

 desire war powers and life for our kinsmen." 



Offering to North Wind. — "You likewise. Porcupine,'-' told grand- 

 father, ' For killing an enemy outright, I am useful, it is said. I am 

 even the equal of the one who blows from the north!' Thus 3"ou told 

 grandfather, it is said. When the proper time has arrived we should 

 pour tobacco. Tobacco, here it is. 



"Our first request is for war power and life." 



Offering to the Pigeons-Hawk. — "Here is tobacco for you, too, 

 Pigeon-Hawk. You blessed granflfather with war and life and it is 

 said you told him that you would alwavs give him what we asked of 

 J'ou." 



Offering to Earthmalcer. — "For Earthmaker, who is the foremost, 

 you said we should pour tobacco, so for him we (pour) tobacco.'^ 

 A handful of tobacco we are about to offer to you (Earthmaker)." 



Offering) to the Thunderhird. — "To you, also, Thundcrbh-d, I am 

 about to pour tobacco. It will be one of the foremost offerings, you 

 said, it is said. Tobacco we pour to you." 



■M Porcupine is also associated with the North Wind in the first division of the ceremony. 



'29 1, e., we even have the effrontery to ofTer liim tobacco as if people hke ourselves could ever obtain a 

 blessing from so great a deity as Earthmaker ! The order in which the offerings to the various spirits are 

 made is rather pecuUar, for that to Earthmaker should, I beheve, come first. I suspect that my informant 

 was probably in error in the arrangement given above, a fact easiJy explained when it is remembered that 

 he tried to visualize a ceremony he had not given for some time. 



