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THE OSAGE TRIBE
TWO VERSIONS OF THE CHILD-NAMING RITE

BY
FRANCIS LA FLESCHE

Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology tothe Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926, GovernmentPrinting Office, Washington, 1928, pages 23-164.24


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CONTENTS

Page
Introduction29
Child-naming Rituals31
Birth Names of the Puma Gens31
The First Three Sons31
The First Three Daughters32
Sky Names32
Child-naming Ritual of the Puma Gens33
Ḳi´-noⁿ—Ceremony of Decorating the Xo´-ḳa33
Ḳi´-noⁿ Wi´-gi-e34
Wa´-ṭse-ṭsi and the Ṭsi´-zhu Wa-shta-ge Gentes35
Ṭsi Ṭa´-p̣e (Approach to the House)36
The Wa-the´-the Ceremony38
Zha´-zhe Ḳi-ṭoⁿ Wi´-gi-e40
Old-age Wi´-gi-e45
Wi´-gi-e of the Wa´-ṭse-ṭsi Gens47
Wi´-gi-e of the Bow People47
Earth Names and Wi´-gi-es48
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