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not touch the skin of a black bear." The writer was told in 1879, that 

 the uju, or principal man of this subgens, was Icta-duba, but La Fleche 

 and Two Crows, in 18S2, asserted that they never heard of an " uju " of 

 a gens. 



Taboo. — The members of this subgens are prohibited from touching 

 the hide of a black bear and from eating its flesh. 



Mythical origin. — They say that their ancestors were made under the 

 ground and that they afterwards came to the surface. 



§ 43. Plate II is a sketch of a tent which belonged to Agaha-wa- 

 cuce, the father of c ra<fi n -na"paji. Hupecj-a's father, Hupefa II, owned it 

 before Agaha-wacuce obtained it. The circle at the top representing a 

 bear's cave, is sometimes painted blue. Below the zigzag lines (repre- 

 senting the different kinds of thunders?) are the prints of bear's paws. 

 This painting was not a nikie but the personal "qube" or sacred thing 

 of the owner. The lower part of the tent was blackened with ashes or 

 charcoal. 



§ 14. Style of wearing the hair. — Four short locks are left on the head, 

 as in the following diagram. They are about 2 inches long. 



Birth-names of boys. — t ja«( , i n -na u paji gave 

 the following : The first son is called Young 

 Black bear. The second, Black bear. The 

 third, Four Eyes, including the true eyes and 

 the. two spots like eyes that are above the 

 eyes of a black bear. The fourth, Gray Foot. 

 The fifth, Cries like a Kaccoou. (La Fleche 

 said that this is a Ponka name, but the 

 Ouiahas now have it.) The sixth, Nidaha n , 

 Progressing toward maturity (sic). The 

 seventh, He turns round and round suddenly 

 (said of both kinds of bears). 



§ 45. Sections of the subgens. — The Wasabe- 



, .., ._ , ,. ., , . . .. ,. Fig. 18.— Wasabe-Mt'ajl style of 



hit'aji people are divided into sections. <jaifi u - wearing thsiair. 



na"pajl and others told the writer that they consisted of four divisions: 

 Black bear, Raccoon, Grizzly bear, and Porcupine people. The Black 

 bear and Raccoon people are called brothers. And when a man kills 

 a black bear he says, "I have killed a raccoon." The young black bear 

 is said to cry like a raccoon, hence the birth-name Mijpi-xage. The 

 writer is inclined to think that there is some foundation for these state- 

 ments, though La Fleche and Two Crows seemed to doubt them. They 

 gave but two divisions of the Wasabe hit'aji ; and it may be that these 

 two are the only ones now in existence, while there were four in ancient 

 times. The two sections which are not doubted are the Wasabe-hit-aji 

 proper, and the Qu>(a, i. e., the Raccoon people. 



When they meet as a subgens, they sit thus in their circle : The 

 Wasabe-hit'aji people sit on the right of the entrance, and the Qujpi 

 have their places on the left. But in the tribal circle the Quj[a people 



