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White Grizzly bear uear at baud. He started suddenly to his feet. 

 Heartless. Cuief. Four Peaks, flair on the legs (of a buffalo calf 

 takes) a withered appearance. Swift Wind. Wind pulls to pieces. 

 He Walks In the Wind. Buffalo that lias become Lean again. Lies 

 at the end. Young animal Feeding with the herd. He who makes an 

 object Fall to pieces by Punching it. Blood. He who makes them 

 wee]). Bow-wood Bow. 



Names of Kansas women. — Kansas Female. Moon that Is traveling'. 

 Ancestral or Foremost Moon. Moon Moving On high. Last [?] Wind. 

 Wind Female. Coming ". act Gray. 



THE MA U (/I>"KA-GAXE GENS. 



§50. This gens, which is the first of the Ictasanda gentes, camps next 



to the ;ga n ze, but on the opposite side of the road. 



The chief of the gens is Cange-sk&, or White Horse, a grandson of the 

 celebrated Black Bird. 



The name Ma,"finka-gaxc means '-the earth-lodge makers," but the 

 members of this gens call themselves the Wolf (and Prairie Wolf) 

 People. 



Tradition. — The principal uikieof the Ma n £inka-gaxe are the coyote, 

 the wolf, and the sacred stones. La Fleche and Two Grows say that 

 these are all together. Some say that there are two sacred stones, one 

 of which is red, the other black; others say that both stones have been 

 reddened. (See §16.) La Fleche and Two Crows have heard that there 

 were four of these stones ; one being black, one red, one yellow, and 

 oneblue. (See thecolors of the lightning on the tent of Agaha-wacuce, 

 § -13.) One tradition is that the stones were made by the Coyote in an- 

 cient days to be used for conjuring enemies. The Osage tradition men 

 tions four stones of different colors, white, black, red, and blue. 



Style of wearing the hair. — Boys have two locks of hair left on their 

 heads, one over the forehead and another at the parting of the hair on 

 the crown. Female children have four locks left, one at the trout, one 

 at the bade, and one over each ear. La Fleche and Two Crows do not 

 know this, but they say that it may be true. 



§ 57. Snbgentes. — La Fleche and Two Crows gave but two of tl 

 Keepersof the Pipe and Sacred Persons. This is evidently the classi- 

 fication for marriage purposes, referred to in §78; and the writer is con- 

 fident that La Fleche and Tw t o Crows always mean this when they speak 

 of the divisions of each gens. This should be borne in mind, as it will 

 be helpful in solving certain seeming contradictions. That these two 

 are not the only divisions of the gens will appear from the statements 

 of Lion and Cange-ska, the latter being the chief of the gens. Cange- 

 ska said that there were three snbgentes, as follows: 1. Qube (includ- 



