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

[302] An. Rept. Peabody Museum, Vol. III, p. 285, note 10. Written in 1882.

[303] An. Rept. Peabody Museum, Vol. III, p. 260.

[304] As it was customary for gentes of the same phratry to exchange personal names, a (Kansa) Deer name, for instance, being given to a (Kansa) Buffalo man, and vice versa, the author thinks that an exchange of symbolic colors might be expected. Compare what Matthews tells about the exchange of white and black among the Navajo, in § 380.

[305] Winona, name of the first child if a daughter, not “first daughter.”

[306] Osage Traditions, in 6th An. Rept. Bur. Ethn., p. 379.

[307] Om. Soc., in 3d An. Rept. Bur. Ethn., pp. 223, 224.

[308] Osage war customs, in Am. Naturalist, Feb., 1884, pp. 118, 126, 132.

[309] Om. Soc., in 3d An. Rept. Bur. Ethn., pp. 329, 330.

[310] Contr. N. A. Ethn., Vol. VI, p. 187.

[311] A Kansa saying: Lṵ, Tcedŭñga, Taqtci aba cki wanaxe kinukiye, abe au, They say that the Thunder-being, Buffalo, and Deer gentes cause a ghost to “kinu,” referring to some effect on a ghost which can not be explained.