ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATKS 



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1. Wa-xthi'-zhi (I°-gtho°'-ga (Puma) gens) 30 



2. Sho"'-ge-mo''-i" (Tsi'-zhu Wa-shta-ge gens) 30 



3. Shell gorget and downy plume (Life symbols) 44 



4. Wa-sho'-she (Ho'''-ga A-hiu-to° (Eagle) gens) 44 



5. Wa-tse'-mo"-!'' (Wa-ga'-be (Black Bear) gens) 54 



6. a, War standard (Symbolizes the white swan). 6, Tse'-wa-the root 



(Nclumbo lutea) used for food 54 



7. Xu-tha'-wa-to"-!" (Tsi'-zhu Wa-no" gens) 84 



8. Straps for tying captives 84 



9. Four Osage children 92 



10. Child's hair cut of the Tho-xe and Ni'-ka Wa-ko^-da-gi gentes 92 



11. Men, showing hair cut of adult Osages 92 



12. Bone ear perforators and expanders 92 



TEXT FIGURES 



1. Diagram showing places of gentes in the lodge 36 



2. Symbolic robe prepared for children 54 



3. Chart of constellation Wa'-ba-ha (Ursa Major) 74 



4. Chart of Ta Tha'-bthi°, Three Deer (in Orion) 74 



5. Totemic cut of the Omaha boys' hair 87 



6. Symbolic hair cut of the Ho°'-ga gens . 89 



7. Symbolic hair cut of the Tsi'-zhu Wa-shta-ge gens 89 



8. Hair out of the Tsi'-zhu Wa-uo" and the Wa-ja'-be (Black Bear) gentes, 92 



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