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4. Ka-e-taje, or those who do not touch turtles or tortoises. 



5. Majinga-e-ta-je, or those who do not touch any kind 

 of bird, excepting the war eagle. 



6. Hun-guh. This band does not eat white cranes, as 

 the down of that bird is their medicine. 



7. Kon-za. This band must not touch the green clay, or 

 even verdigris, both of which are used as pigments by the 

 other bands, for ornamenting their persons. 



8. Ta-pa-taj je. This band must not touch deers' heads, 

 neither must they wear deer skin mockasins. Many of the 

 individuals of this band are partially gray haired. This 

 change of the hair which they consider as a deformity, is at- 

 tributed to a violation of the above-mentioned laws prescrib- 

 ed by their medicine. 



The second division or tribe Ishtasunda y is sub-divided 

 into five bands. 



1. Ta pa-eta je. This band does not touch bison heads. 



2. Mon-eka-goh-ha, or the earth-makers. Of this band was 

 the celebrated Black-bird. They are not forbidden the use 

 of any aliment, and are said to have originated the present 

 mode of mourning, by rubbing the body with whitish clay. 



3. Ta-.tin-da, or the bison tail. This band does not eat 

 bison calves, in the first year of the age of that animal. 



4. Inggeraje-da, or the Red dung. This name is said to 

 have originated from the circumstance of this band having for- 

 merly quarrelled, and separated themselves from the na- 

 tion, until, being nearly starved they were compelled to eat 

 the fruit of the wild cherry tree, until their excrement be- 

 came red. 



5. Wash-a-tung. This band must not touch any of the 

 reptilia class of animals. 



Each of these animals, or parts of animals, which the bands 

 respectively are forbidden to touch or eat, is regarded as the 

 particular mysterious medicine of the band collectively, to 

 which it relates. 



