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Ben-a-ti’-sin, Buffalo Woman Dance (ben’-a, a buffalo, and is’-in, a woman). 
men join in this dance. 
is a buffalo’s head. 
éa'-ha-wi’, Little Dog’s Dance. 
Bi-tai’-hi-nin, People that scrape robes (hi-tai’-hi, an instrument for scraping robes). 
the men join in this dance. 
ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
Only the wo- 
They have a peculiar costume or dress, the head-dress of which 
The men form a circle, and the women dance in the ring. 
Only 
A-tha-hu’-ha, Foolish Dog’s Dance. This dance is performed by a band of young men, 
about the same age, called the Foolish Dogs. 
A-ha’-kai-nin, Foolish People, is a band of young men, about the same age. 
At one time 
they numbered fifty persons, but the small-pox reduced them to about thirty. They have 
a dance peculiar to themselves. 
9. NAMES OF INDIAN TRIBES, RIVERS, ETO. 
nat-e-ne’-hin-a, Dakotas, people that cut their enemies 
heads off, cut throats. 
a-i-nun’, Crow people, Crows; a-i-na’, a Crow, Corvus. 
ka-wi'-na-han, Blackfeet, black people. 
it-us-shi’-na, Shyennes, the scarred people, from their 
having so many scars on their arms and breasts. 
wa-tan’-a-hith-i, black people (ith’-i, people, wa-ta’-ya, 
black). 
ni-¢i’-he-nen-a, water men or people, Kiowas (ni-di’-a, 
water, nen’-a, a man. 
éa'-tha, Comanches. The Arapohos formerly called 
them the Snake people, but they now call them 
a name derived from the fact that they have 
plenty of horses. 
e-wu-ha/-wu-si, Snakes; Sho’-sho-ni, people that use 
erass and bark for their lodges or huts. 
ah-i/-hi-nin, Wolf people, Pawnees ; ali-i’, a wolf. 
ka'-nan-in, people whose jaws break in pieces, Arickaras. 
ka-ka’i-thi, Flathead people. 
thali-a-i-nin’, Apaches, people who play on bone in- 
struments. Buffalo ribs are used; notches being 
cut in one of the bones, the other is rubbed con- 
tinually backwards and forwards over it. 
to-i-nin’-a, people that beg, Gros Ventres of the prairie, 
Atsinas. 
wa-nuk’-e-ye’-na, Minnetarees, lodges planted together. 
be-in-i-¢i-a, Shell River, pearl shells used in trade, 
Platte. ; 
bas-ni-¢i/-a, Large River, Yellowstone. 
a-hai’-ni-ni-¢i’-a, Flint River, Arkansas. 
ni-nun’-i-ni-¢i’-a, Fat River, South Platte. 
a-a-hia/-i-te, ‘River with a lone house on it,’”’ Cache la 
Poudre. 
i-shit’-Cun-ni-Gi/-a, Deer Creek, Antelope Creek. 
ha-hu’-i-sin-i-Gi’-a, Box-elder Creek. 
- imal-in-i-Gi/-a, “River with many crossings,’’ Sweet- 
water. 
thah-a’-ili-ut-un’-i, Hammer Mountains, Medicine Bow 
Mountains. 
o-i-nin-i-ni/-ni-a’-ha, Crow Mountains, Big-horn Moun- 
tains. 
ée-than’-i-¢i-a (ée’-tha, powder), Powder River. 
10. NAMES OF ANIMALS, PLANTS, ETC. 
na-kah’, a white bear. 
wa-tai/-nahi, a black bear. 
wahi’-a, a badger. 
is-i’-éa, an antelope. 
bi’-hi, a deer. 
a-ta’, a big-horn, mountain sheep. 
ali-i 
ees \ large wolf. 
a-wa’-ta-tas 
b) 
= « ! 
ka-a’, xe Peps! 
,. ¢ prairie or medicine wolf. 
ka-a-wo'-t, 
ai-wa-ta’-ka, large hare. Lepus campestris. 
na-wa-ta’-ka, small rabbit. Lepus artemisia. 
