[282] See Am. Naturalist, July, 1885, pp. 673, 674, Figs. 3 and 4.
[283] The reader is cautioned against supposing that “air” as used in this section is employed in the scientific sense, because the Indians were ignorant of the nature of the atmosphere. They distinguish between the “Something-that-moves” (which we term the “Wind-maker,” “Wind-makers” in the plural) and the winds, and they also had distinct names for the clouds and “upper world.” They also had special names for the Four Quarters (Dakota, tatuye topa; Ȼegiha, tade uiȼĕ dubaha).
[284] See § 33 where there is an account of the invocation of the winds at the consecration of the fireplaces.
[285] The Omaha Buffalo Medicine-Men, in Jour. Amer. Folk-lore, No. X, p. 219, and note.
[286] It is interesting to observe in this connection that the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, in an address entitled “Outlines of the philosophy of the North American Indians.” New York, 1877, (p. 10), spoke of “the god of the south, whose breath is the winds.”
[287] Am. Naturalist, July, 1885, p. 676.
[288] An. Rept. Peabody Museum, vol. III, p. 267.
[289] Ibid, p. 268.
[290] Ibid, pp. 272, 273.
[291] Om. Soc., 3d An. Rept. Bur. Ethn., p. 242.