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the Elk gens: Elk. Young Elk. Standing Elk. White Elk (near by). 

 Big Elk. <A n -wega n £a (meaning uncertain). B£a n -ti, The odor of the 

 dung or urine of the elk ia wafted by the wind (said of any place where the 

 elk may have been ). (A young elk) Cries Suddenly. Hidaha (said to mean 

 Treads on the ground in walking, or, Passes over what is at the bottom). 

 Iron Eyes (of an elk). Bullet-shaped Dung (of an elk). (Elk) Is coming 

 back — fleeing from a man whom he met. Muscle of an elk's leg. Elk 

 comes back suddenly (meeting the hunter face to face). (Elk) Turns 

 round and round. No Knife or No Stone (probably referring to the 

 tradition of the discovery of four kinds of stone). Dark Breast (of an 

 elk). Deer lifts its head to browse. Yellow Rump (of an elk). Walking 

 Full-grown Elk. (Elk) Walks, making long strides, swaying from side to 

 side. Stumpy Tail (of an elk). Forked Horn (of a deer). Water-monster. 

 The Brave Weji n cte (named after his gens). Women's names. — Female 

 Elk. Tail Female. Black Moose (?) Female. Big Second-daughter (any 

 gens can have it). Sacred Third-daughter (Elk and Inke-sabe gentes). 

 Iron-eyed Female (Elk and Hanga gentes). Land Female (Elk and 

 $ atada gentes). Moon that Is-traveling (Elk, Inke-sab?, Hanga, </)atada, 

 and 5ja"ze gentes) ; Na n -ze-i n -ze, meaning uncertain (Elk, $atada, and 

 Deer gentes). Ninda-wi n (Elk, (patada, and Ictasanda gentes). Names 

 of ridicule. — Dog. Crazed by exposure to heat. Good Buffalo. 



§ 26. According to jje-da-u^iqaga, the chief A n pa n -:}anga, the younger, 

 had a boat and flag painted on the outside of his skin tent. These were 

 made " qabe," sacred, but were not nikie, because they were not trans- 

 mitted from a mythical ancestor. 



§ 27. This gens has furnished several head chiefs since the death of 

 the famous Black Bird. Among these were A n pa n -ska (head chief after 

 1800), A u pa n -^aiiga, the elder, the celebrated Big Elk, mentioned by 

 Long and other early travelers, aud A n pa n -"ianga, the younger. On the 

 death of the last, about A. D. 1853, Joseph La Fleche succeeded him 

 as a head chief. 



THE INKE-SABE, OR BLACK SHOULDEE GENS. 



§28. This is a Buffalo gens, and its place in the tribal circle is next to 

 that of the Elk gens. The head chiefs of this gens in 18S0 were Gahige 



For instance, when, in any household, a child is named Wasabe-jinga, that name can- 

 not he given to any new-born child of that gens. But when the first bearer of the name 

 changes his name or dies, another boy can receive the name Wasabe-jinga. As that 

 is one of the seven birth names of the Wasabe-hit'ajl it suggests a reason for having 

 extra nikie names in the gens. This second kind of nikie names may have been birth 

 names, resorted to because the original birth names were already used. This law ap- 

 plies in some degree to girls' names, if parents know that a girl in the gens has a certain 

 name they cannot give that name to their daughter. But should that name be chosen 

 through ignorance, the two girls must be distinguished by adding to their own names 

 those of their respective fathers. 



