- 116 An account of the War Customs of the Osages. [F 
the final ceremonies. Whereupon the teacher goes to one ofthe 
heralds (an Elk or Kansas man), telling him to proclaim the news 
around the village’ | 
All the people who wish to see the ceremonies take a suffici 
number of tents and remove to the place outside the village 
pitching their tents in a circle. The large tent of the Cheezhoo 
is put up on the left, at A, Fig. 2, and the corresponding tent of Í 
the right side is pitched at B. The latter is the leading tent whet 
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Fic, 2.—Plan of war tent. 
the deceased belongs to the left side,-and the former is the lead | 
all the men on their side, who meet at B. H +o 
Each mourner receives a war pipe and a forked stick on 
he can hang the bag in which the pipe is kept. The pipe® 
old one handed down from preceding generations. Such piP 
are.always kept by those men who have taken a degree Gr 2 | 
secret order of the tribe. The drum used on. this occasion . 
made by a man of the Sun-carrier gens, Two battle stam e 
are made for each mourner by an old man of the Elder Y 
gens (Fig. 3). One on each side has seven feathers, and 
oned as the superior one; and the other has six. The botto 
each standard terminates in a sharp point, which is used K 
spear, When the two teachers ask the Elder Osage mi 
make the standards, they hand him a new knife, some pa 
all other materials required for them. When he finishes r 
the knife and the remaining materials belong to him. © 
