[172] With this compare the belief of some African tribes that the monkey has the gift of speech, but fears to use it lest he should be made a slave.
[173] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, p. 66.
[174] Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. II, pt. 2, p. 66.
[175] Ibid., p. 66.
[176] Cont. N.A. Ethnol., vol. VI, pp. 207-219.
[177] Translated from the original MS. in the Bushotter collection. Tuki is the Teton name for a univalve shellfish said to come from the Great Lakes.
[178] Tah-koo Wah-kon, p. 71.
[179] Osage Traditions, in 6th An. Rept. Bur. Ethn., pp. 379, 380. Am. Naturalist, February, 1884, pp. 113, 114, 133. Ibid, July, 1885, p. 671, Om. Soc., in 3d An. Rept. Bur. Ethn., pp. 228, 233, 244, 247.
[180] Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. III, p. 264. Note how in the sun dance the sun, the four winds, and the buffalo are referred to (§§ 147, 164, 167, 173, and 181, and Pl. XLVIII), and ceremonies are performed connected with the earth, such as mellowing the earth (§§ 146, 155, and 176) and the “Uuȼita,” in which they shoot into the ground (§ 170).
[181] Op. cit., p. 297.