XXXII DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
to shore in order to serve as the canoe of the party. Doubtless there were 
more points of resemblance in the two myths, but parts of the Biloxi one 
have been forgotten by the aged narrator. 
NOTES ON THE DAKOTA DANCES! 
The Begging dance is known among the Ponka as the Wana watcigaxe 
(See ‘Omaha Sociology,” in 3d Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethn., p. 355.) The No 
flight dance is the Make-no-flight dance or Ma¢a watcigaxe of the Ponka 
and Omaha. It is described in ‘Omaha Sociology” Gn 3d Ann. Rept. 
Bur. Ethn., p. 352). The Scalp dance is a dance for the women among 
the Ponka and Omaha, who call it Wewatci. (See ‘Omaha Sociology,” 
in 3d Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethn., p. 330). 
The Mystery dance is identical with the Wacicka of the Omaha. A 
brief account of that dance was published by the editor in ‘Omaha 
Sociology,” in 3d Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethn., pp. 842-346. 
The Grass dance, sometimes called Omaha dance, is the dance of the 
He¢ucka society of the Omaha tribe, answering to the Ilucka of the Kansa, 
and the Iny¢t"cka of the Osage. For accounts of the Hefucka see 
“Omaha Sociology,” in 8d Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethn., pp. 880-332, and ‘“ Hae- 
thu-ska society of the Omaha tribe,” by Miss Alice C. Fletcher, in the 
Jour. of Amer. Folk-Lore, April-June, 1892, pp. 135-144. For accounts 
of the sun-dance, with native illustrations, see ‘A Study of Siouan Cults,” 
Chapter V, in the 11th Ann. Rept. of the Bureau of Ethnology. 
Bureau oF Ernnowoey, 
Washington, D. C., September 15, 1893. 
1See pp. 224-232, 
