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ANTHROPOLOGY: A. C FLETCHER 
the priest lifted the child and it stood on the stone with its face to the 
east. The priest sang the following ritual song. A free translation 
is given. 
Turned by the Winds, goes the one I send yonder, 
Yonder he goes who is whirled by the Winds, 
Goes where the four hills of life and the Four Winds are standing, 
There into the midst of the Winds, do I send him. 
Into the midst of the Winds, standing there. 
The priest then puts upon the child's feet the new moccasins, makes 
it take four steps, and says: "Go forth on the path of life!" A personal 
tribal name was now given the child, one that belonged to its father's 
village (gens) and referred to the second symbol of its rite. This name 
was then proclaimed by the priest to the "Hills, Trees, Grasses, and all 
living creatures great and small!" in the hearing of the assembled members 
of the tribe. 
In connection with the part symbolically taken by the Winds in this 
ceremony, it is interesting to note, that it was the duty of the 'Wind 
people' to put moccasins on the feet of the dead, that they might enter 
the spirit land and there be recognized and able to rejoin their kindred. 
After a boy had ceremonially received his tribal name, on his return 
home, his father cut the child's hair in an established manner which was 
meant to typify the sacred symbol of his village. This manner of cutting 
a boy's hair was kept up until the child was about seven years old. The 
queerly cropped heads of the boys fixed in the minds of the children 
the symbols belonging to the different villages (gentes). 
The symbolism attached to garments and the manner of wearing them, 
already mentioned, runs through the myths, allegories and metaphors, 
and figures extensively in the tribal rites. 
A detailed presentation of the subject of this paper is impossible within 
the accorded limits, but from what has been given, glimpses have been 
obtained of the line the Indian has pursued in his endeavor to express 
his view of Nature and of the relation he believed to exist between its 
various forms and forces and himself. 
In the tribal rites can be traced the gropings of the Indians' mind 
to find that power, greater than man, which was the source of visible 
Nature; to discover a way for man to approach that power so that he 
could receive help from it; also to search for the meaning of the activities 
that were everywhere apparent. The religious and social ideas developed 
through this search, extending, through generations, as the rituals give 
evidence both directly and indirectly, were gradually evolved and 
