A Study of Siouan Cults / Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1861, pages 351-544

by James Owen Dorsey

[292] Osage War Customs, in Am. Naturalist, Feb., 1884, pp. 131, 132.

[293] The west and north are supposed to be the peace quarters, and the east and south the war quarters. See Fig. 194 and § 378.

[294] Om. Soc., p. 299.

[295] Contr. to N. A. Ethnol., vol. IX, Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography, p. 193.

[296] Ibid., p. 197.

[297] From Renville’s account of the tiyotipi, in ibid., pp. 200, 202.

[298] Om. Soc., p. 317. Osage War Customs, pp. 118, 119, 124, 131.

[299] Contr. N. A. Ethnol., vol. VI, The Ȼegiha Language, p. 375.

[300] The author accepts this without hesitation.

[301] Yet these feathers and down are often colored: see §§ 112, 116, 132, 239, 242, and 263.