70 THE OSAGE TRIBE [eth. ann. 43 



34. Take heed and see what can be done. 



35. Then to the youngest of the brothers they spake, 



36. Saying: O, younger brother, 



37. The little ones have nothing of which to make their bodiesi 



38. You will give heed and see what can be done. 



39. Even as these words were being spoken, 



40. The messenger descended to the fourth division of heaven, 



41. Where lay the bird (the female eagle) that has no stains (evil 



disposition). 



42. Verily, a person who is ever present upon her nest. 



43. Upon the center of the earth, that sat in all her greatness,^ 



44. There stood a person (the male eagle). 



45. From him we shall take the name, Mo^-zho"', Earth, 



46. Verily, he is a person who travels far and wide, above the earth. 



47. We shall take from him the name, Mo°-zho°'-ga-sho°, Travels- 



above-the-earth. 

 48.' Verily, he is a person whose home is upon the center of the earth. 



49. We will take from him the name, Mo''-zho°'-u-5ko°-5ka, Center- 



of-the-earth. 



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50. The little ones are now a people. 



51. We shall also take the name, Xi-tha'-da-wi°, Good-eagle- 



woman, 



52. Also the name, Hi°'-i-ki''-da-bi, Feathers-fought-over, 



53. Hi°'-ga-mo°-ge, Feathers-scattered-by-the-winds, shall also be 



our name, 



54. As also, No^-be'-gi, Yellow-hands. 



55. And Wa-zhi°'-ga-hi'', Feathers-of-the-bird, shall be our name. 



56. Verily, at that time and place, 



57. The eagle spake, saying: Behold the hollow of my foot, 



58. Which I have made to be the sign of old age. 



59. When the little ones make of me their bodies, 



60. They shall live to see the sign of old age in the hollow of their 



foot. 



61. The wrinkles upon my shin, 



62. I have made to be the sign of old age. 



63. When the little ones make of me their bodies, 



64. They shall live to see wrinkles upon their shin. 



1 The words o[ this line are figurative and mean the earth when ahe displays hej greatness by her blos- 

 soming flowers and her ripening fruit. 



